verging
Example Sentences
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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
“She’s off Snapchat and Insta. I’m verging on hostile, so I thought I’d call and see what you know.”
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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