teeter
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Crisis strikes the kitchen when our forgotten, shelved-away ingredients teeter on the fine line between fresh and spoiled.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
The characters in her novels long for stability in landscapes where the past is forever intruding on the present—they teeter on the shifting border between perception and fact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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
I laughed, feeling myself teeter on the edge of anger.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
A tense scene between her and her sister, Ms. Lucio’s Mia, teeters between sororal competition and sympathy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
This opening by Havana, a serious breach in the island's anti-capitalist system, comes as the Cuban economy teeters on the brink of collapse.
From Barron's ● Mar. 21, 2026
Yet despite his government's nimble response and Seychelles' remarkably swift economic bounce-back, his popularity teeters.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
An epic treehouse that has stood in Sherman Oaks for 24 years now teeters on the brink of destruction after the city of L.A. declared the whimsical creation a crime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
She teeters towards me; I wait for a sign.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
As the business teetered, it got a lifeline in early 2024.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 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
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
“Many of the key teachings from OneTaste teetered between helping and harming the student,” she writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
Lloyd began to unwrap another Tootsie Roll and the cow he was holding teetered.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
But now the West Midlands-based retailer is teetering on the edge, after its US-based owners Gordon Brothers cut off a vital funding supply and rejected a takeover offer from Irish firm Martin Property Group.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Dramatic photos and video footage showed homes along the city's peninsula teetering precariously, while its historic boardwalk was partially swept away.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
It sort of gave me a direction early on because I was a little bit teetering in those days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Massive flooding left a government building in western Nepal teetering on the edge of an unstable ledge before it fell into the Daram River.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
It felt like I’d been teetering over the edge of a cliff and someone had pulled me back.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
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