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The town straddles the border: half is in Portugal, half in Spain (where it’s called Rihonor de Castilla).
When a politican straddles an issue, he's in much the same position.
In some cases the same birth weight straddles several percentiles for a given gestational age despite smoothing, particularly at the lowest gestational ages.
You could spend a whole day in the Museum of Science complex that straddles the Charles River, playing and learning on the 400-plus interactive exhibits.
Guangzhou, with a population of more than 5 million, straddles the Pearl River — China’s fifth longest — which links the city to the South China Sea.