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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

More than this seems to me to verge upon impertinence.

From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

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

At no period of her least refulgent moment did she verge upon this type.

From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson




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