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  • noun A shadowy or borderline area, where normal rules and boundaries do not apply

Etymologies

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shadow +‎ land

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Examples

  • In its November issue, National Geographic magazine ran a feature story on Syria, calling it the "shadowland" and challenging suggestions that the ruling regime can ever raise the country out of its dark past.

    National Geographic vs. the Syrian regime 2009

  • The District has always been a kind of shadowland: It has no voice in the national government, even though the national government is run from the confines of its land.

    Barack Blesses Ben's Chili Bowl in DC...A Legendary Joint That's All About Change Eddie Gehman Kohan 2009

  • It draws you in and makes you a long-time resident of this shadowland that exists between death and dreams.

    A review for INK wendigomountain 2009

  • Until a director is confirmed, CFPB can't regulate many financial businesses, such as payday lenders, that have operated in an unregulated shadowland, or ban abusive or deceptive credit card fees.

    Preeti Vissa: The Fed's Secrets and the Unfinished Work of Financial Reform Preeti Vissa 2011

  • Until a director is confirmed, CFPB can't regulate many financial businesses, such as payday lenders, that have operated in an unregulated shadowland, or ban abusive or deceptive credit card fees.

    Preeti Vissa: The Fed's Secrets and the Unfinished Work of Financial Reform Preeti Vissa 2011

  • Adebayor inhabits a shadowland and Balotelli speaks as if he were the victim of an elaborate kidnap plot hatched in Manchester.

    Roberto Mancini's scrap merchants show mettle to back up title hopes | Paul Hayward 2011

  • Until a director is confirmed, CFPB can't regulate many financial businesses, such as payday lenders, that have operated in an unregulated shadowland, or ban abusive or deceptive credit card fees.

    Preeti Vissa: The Fed's Secrets and the Unfinished Work of Financial Reform Preeti Vissa 2011

  • Yet even if the stench of corruption did not linger around some of the politicians who extracted profit from Prohibition—a man who delivered jobs, projects, and pork to his district could be forgiven much—their coconspirators came from a shadowland filled with nightmares for dry and wet alike.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Yet even if the stench of corruption did not linger around some of the politicians who extracted profit from Prohibition—a man who delivered jobs, projects, and pork to his district could be forgiven much—their coconspirators came from a shadowland filled with nightmares for dry and wet alike.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • But I do still have hope that they might at least taste a slice of reality at some point, and become self-aware to their indoctrinations, the scars of which have blinded their ability to perceive with a shadowland of Utopian disillusion.

    StrategyPage.com 2009

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