teeter
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Justice’s control of the Greenbrier began to teeter in 2024, as he ran for Senate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Crisis strikes the kitchen when our forgotten, shelved-away ingredients teeter on the fine line between fresh and spoiled.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
If it can’t get payments from tenants quickly enough to cover its debt needs, the company’s business model could teeter.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2025
Until vaccination rates improve, we’ll teeter on the edge with this disease.
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2025
Sometimes the outcome really does teeter and hang in the balance.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Broadcom earnings could be strong thanks to artificial intelligence demand, but shareholders should be prepared for a muted stock reaction as market sentiment teeters.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
Like most of Mr. Puryear’s spare, finely fabricated, handcrafted sculptures, “Aso Oke” teeters between conflicting associations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
Yet despite his government's nimble response and Seychelles' remarkably swift economic bounce-back, his popularity teeters.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
It’s the entrance of Li’l Petey that grounds and focuses the affably chaotic “Dog Man,” which often teeters on the edge of completely out of control.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025
Timber splinters, as though the rubble teeters on some final fulcrum.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
MP Materials, a volatile small-cap since its 2020 special-purpose acquisition company debut, has swung between boom and bust for rare-earth investors but has never teetered on the edge of failure.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Lebanon has long teetered on the edge of being a failed state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
The company famously teetered on the edge of bankruptcy in 1996, surviving only through a $5 million cash injection from the Japanese videogame developer Sega.
From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026
“Many of the key teachings from OneTaste teetered between helping and harming the student,” she writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
Once or twice she teetered on a print and almost fell over.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
When Lawrence was run out in a mix-up with Cox, England were 120-5 and teetering.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
The nation’s third largest city isn’t teetering on the brink of insolvency like Detroit in 2013.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the "situation is getting out of control. It is teetering on the edge of the unimaginable".
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Now that a majority of Americans own stocks, policymakers may find it hard to sit on the sidelines and not step in if the equity market is teetering, Balchunas said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
All that remained was a charred foundation, a few blackened timbers, and the remains of a teetering brick chimney propped up by a single two-by-four.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
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