Definition of "shadowland" []

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

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