verge
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See: Semiconductor stocks are on the verge of a bear market.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 19, 2026
Hernández, on the verge of a rehab assignment, is on a faster track to return than Roberts initially expected.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
Two months later, on the verge of bankruptcy, People Express sold out to Texas Air for roughly half the price it could have gotten in July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
During his illustrious career, he saved Borussia Dortmund after the club had been on the verge of bankruptcy, and years later, he pulled Liverpool out of no man's land in the Premier League standings.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Mom sounded like she was on the verge of crying again.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The film is such a Christmas perennial it verges on the liturgical, and why not?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Lower land costs and an expectation of a lesser or in fact no need for Buckinghamshire-style tunnels and verges would mean a much lower cost per mile of track.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
And at times “Kenrex” verges on caricature in its depiction of rural life as a lawless Wild Midwest, garnished by such down-home delicacies as “a deep fried barbecue chili cheese dog with bacon crumbles.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
"The verges between the lay-bys were strewn with litter, the lay-bys themselves were in a mess," he added.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 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
But did he realise that these stunts verged on self-parody?
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
The result in Beijing verged at times towards collective paranoia.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
On social media, the schadenfreude has verged on gleeful, with the public picking up on even the smallest references to confirm their priors and their thirst for justice is palpable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
The energy, the motion, the kavorka forever verged on chaos.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2024
It verged on hyperbole—that is to say, wild exaggeration—to call him a “noted expert,” as he was really just a simple country veterinarian.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Former scrum-half Matt Dawson described England's discipline as "verging on comical" after four players were shown yellow cards in the second half of their 31-24 win over Argentina.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
A plant that was once romantic is now, some fear, verging on the apocalyptic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
Six seasons of TV and three feature films depict servitude as a benevolent state, sometimes verging on jolly.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025
“You get people who are verging on psychopathy and you get people who are just troubled.”
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025
McCandless viewed running as an intensely spiritual exercise, verging on religion.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing verge
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 7–11
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