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A surprisingly strong U.S. economy sustained its vigor on the verge of the holiday shopping season, a pair of S&P surveys showed, as businesses hired more workers to keep up with rising customer demand.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

That now seems on the verge of changing forever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

The news release slammed Milton for “selling investors a story that his company Nikola was on the verge of delivering zero‑emission trucking,” adding his deceitful marketing campaign “overstated technology.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

Then, Herbie Farnworth conceded a sloppy penalty on the verge of half-time when accidentally tripping Watene-Zelezniak off the ball.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

By the time the Icelander left Grossinger’s the next morning, he felt that Bobby was on the verge of agreeing to play exclusively in Reykjavik.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

We like a very early dinner that verges on being a very late lunch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

He also has a tendency to get starry-eyed around big-name pitchers; his awe of Mr. Skubal verges on sycophantic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Standing outdoors in all weathers, he painted hundreds of scenes of lush meadows and roadside verges.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

"We selected some sites that we wanted to try and create meadows on, and we wanted to create some verges," he said.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

Hedgerows and verges were at their rankest and thickest.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Belgium’s outrage ahead of its match against the Americans verged on disbelief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

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

A questionable outlet, the company obtained the results through a methodology so shady it verged on outright dishonesty: They used a definition of “tradwife” that bears no resemblance to the term’s actual meaning.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026

She had maintained, too, her old way of holding her head in a manner that verged on the defiant.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Hampden was verging on turning toxic when Greece slammed in a deserved opener after an hour of domination.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025

Now Wang Lung had heard here and there that for the House of Hwang it had been a year verging upon poverty.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck