verge
Example Sentences
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“So when biology becomes programmable like this, entire industries change. Just like software ate media, just like software ate retail, software is now on the verge of eating medicine,” he said.
From MarketWatch
A hundred and five years later, Iran is on that verge again.
Dorsey, 49, cited rapidly improving artificial-intelligence models as the primary reason, fueling anxieties the technology was on the verge of wiping out white-collar jobs and devastating the economy.
I’d thought the danger of the Cocoon had been real before, but now that I was on the verge of getting caught, it all seemed to hit home just that much harder.
From Literature
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More goals are being scored, but the amount of pushing and pulling has at times verged on the farcical.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.