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A few minutes earlier, the Brewers were on the verge of the title.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Ken Griffin, the world’s richest hedge fund owner, said last week that AI is “almost certainly” fueling a market bubble that could be on the verge of a burst.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

It's incredible - 20 years old and he's on the verge of winning his first championship, which I'm sure will be the first of many.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

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

As for Caroline, I think she’s on the verge of a breakdown.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

Dalziel-Bush and others got out to help, but after searching in ditches and grass verges, they realised the cyclist was nowhere to be seen.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

"When you walk past the verges and see them all being left as they should be, it's brilliant," Taylor said.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

Spearpoints shone in the light of the rising sun, and all along die verges the grass glistened with the morning frost.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

Some people’s fascination with Gein even verged into fandom, according to Hamish McAlpine, producer of the 2000 film “Ed Gein.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025

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

Does it mean men’s tennis is verging on another Big Three?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

Professional scientific activities and information and communications did well, which chimes with a lot of strong investment news, verging on boom territory in the UK AI and tech sector, nicknamed "Britmaxxing".

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

McCandless viewed running as an intensely spiritual exercise, verging on religion.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer