brink
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The film imagines a world on the brink of a revelation: proof that non-human intelligence exists and has been hidden in plain sight.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
Market breadth is poor and breadth oscillators are on the brink of sell signals.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
As Ebola spread across West Africa in September 2014, the world was on the brink of catastrophe.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
JetBlue Chief Executive Joanna Geraghty wrote a message to employees in April that said the airline isn’t on the brink of bankruptcy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
The event, it is thought, may have carried humans right to the brink of extinction, reducing the global population to no more than a few thousand individuals.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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