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

But I confess that the talk and the quality of it, the meeting and its informality did strike me as so singularly stimulating as to verge upon the riotous.

From Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins

Here we verge upon a different type of explanation of the financial crisis—one of a psychological nature.

From Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II by Fetter, Frank Albert

“Yes,” Inna could but confess it was—very guardedly, though, lest they might verge upon gossip again.

From The Heiress of Wyvern Court by Searchfield, Emilie