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verge upon



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To say that the later portraits verge upon caricature is not much of an overstatement.

From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2010

Because you consistently verge upon the profound, the revealing�and then pull back, almost in embarrassment.

From Time Magazine Archive

The doctrines and practices of these sects clearly verge upon those obtaining in the third principal division of Indian sectarians which will now be considered.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

But perhaps there are schools among us now which verge upon the opposite extreme.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.

In a sense the dragon is the type of a man, self-controlled, and with powers that verge upon the supernatural.

From Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)




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