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In New York's busy LaGuardia airport, Janice Llewellyn was on the verge of tears: the chaos could mean she will miss her daughter's wedding in Toronto.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
It's incredible - 20 years old and he's on the verge of winning his first championship, which I'm sure will be the first of many.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
Nine years later, the Italian is on the verge of clinching his first title.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Golden Eagles on verge of first Coliseum League title.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
I spend the next two classes on the verge of tears.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
"Every time I drive up a road, as I'm driving I still look at the verges, I can't stop myself," says Nicola.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
We like a very early dinner that verges on being a very late lunch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The film is such a Christmas perennial it verges on the liturgical, and why not?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
"When you walk past the verges and see them all being left as they should be, it's brilliant," Taylor said.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
I pushed against the earth, trying to stand, and found my fingers tangled among the cool, waxy leaves of the mallow plant that clung to the marshy verges of the river.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
Belgium’s outrage ahead of its match against the Americans verged on disbelief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The result in Beijing verged at times towards collective paranoia.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Some people’s fascination with Gein even verged into fandom, according to Hamish McAlpine, producer of the 2000 film “Ed Gein.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
Sterling also missed a one-on-one in the first half and when Pochettino took off Mykhailo Mudryk moments later, the atmosphere verged on mutinous.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2024
My bladder verged on explosion because of the crazy amount of water we were forced to drink to stay hydrated.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
The re-created history, which is where many historical documentaries fail, looks good, and the scenes the writers conjure up are well done, if verging sometimes on melodrama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
A consistent message emerged: Los Angeles was not a beautiful, vibrant metropolis with serious problems, but a hellhole verging on being lost for good.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026
We are drawn by the painting’s rich orchestration of warm and cool browns—from sludgy tan to super-charged ocher verging on sienna—and its seductive textures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Sear the thighs skin-side down in a wide skillet until the fat renders and the skin turns deeply golden, verging on bronze.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026
With postwar guilt, he decried bratwurst, sauer- braten, and Konigsberger Klopse as dishes verging on poison.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 7–11
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