brink
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Then on Thursday, with the Dodgers on the brink of elimination, one swing wiped all that away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
The market for asset-backed commercial paper teetered on the brink of collapse during the financial crisis before stagnating for a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Emergency repairs and cleanup were underway Monday in California's wave-battered city of Long Beach, where several homes appeared on the brink of collapse and remained too dangerous to enter.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
He again predicted that Russia and Ukraine were on the brink of peace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Below it twenty fathoms or more, there was a wide and rugged shelf which ended suddenly in the brink of a sheer cliff: the East Wall of Rohan.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
“Terry gone need a brinks truck,” Commanders safety Jeremy Reaves tweeted shortly after Kirk’s deal.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
This week, talks are on the brinks of collapse, the British government may be breaking the law, and terrifying deadlines are looming.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2020
Speaking of brinks, Oregon seemed to find one hurriedly.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2019
No one else could have moved Sierra Leone from the brinks of collapse to the threshold of prosperity with the time Pa Kabba did.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2014
Not long afterwards again we got among a number of abominable pressure-ridges, and ran right into high mounds and over steep brinks without seeing them.
From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen
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