cusp
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The incumbent, on the cusp of 81, has meanwhile upped his social media game at the eleventh hour, posting selfie-mode videos and even buying his first-ever cell phone.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
On Aug. 9, visitors unknowingly passed through a landscape on the cusp of failure.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
So a couple with a $3,300 monthly Social Security benefit, which places them on the cusp of the top 10%, would get a 2027 benefit increase of $75 instead of the $122 they currently expect.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
Do these tours include customers on the cusp of “VIC” status?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
The skin on the edge of my thumb rests on the cusp between safety and flame.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Near a planet's poles, however, there are funnel-shaped openings known as "magnetospheric cusps."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Its teeth possessed sharp cusps and crests for slicing through the exoskeleton of insects and lacked the rounded crushing surfaces useful for eating fruit.
From Reuters ● Apr. 13, 2023
Mr. Biden held a similar celebration with former President Barack Obama last year on the cusps of the midterms.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
The researchers digitized the strange tooth using an x-ray scanner at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, precisely measuring its cusps, ridges, and crests.
From Science Magazine ● May 17, 2022
He had carried this innocent precision, these dainty demoded cusps, through misery and passion to old age.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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