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A person may even warn us by crying for help or, as Cathy does, advising those on the verge of falling into her trap to turn back.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

This was when Schmitt, believing he was on the verge of a slam dunk, accused Smith of perjury.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

Given Stafford’s history of dramatic comebacks, the Rams were on the verge of possibly pulling out a victory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

After another rough week, the bond market’s no-good September continued on Monday, with the Treasury market on the verge of booking one of its worst monthly showings in years.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Wrinkles puckered his forehead; his eyes blinked anxiously; and he seemed on the verge of bursting into tears.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 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

Lower land costs and an expectation of a lesser or in fact no need for Buckinghamshire-style tunnels and verges would mean a much lower cost per mile of track.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

And at times “Kenrex” verges on caricature in its depiction of rural life as a lawless Wild Midwest, garnished by such down-home delicacies as “a deep fried barbecue chili cheese dog with bacon crumbles.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Romances began and ended there; children kissed at the verges of fields or walking home through the woods.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

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

The energy, the motion, the kavorka forever verged on chaos.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2024

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

Former scrum-half Matt Dawson described England's discipline as "verging on comical" after four players were shown yellow cards in the second half of their 31-24 win over Argentina.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 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

Sear the thighs skin-side down in a wide skillet until the fat renders and the skin turns deeply golden, verging on bronze.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026

It was verging on dusk, and the clock had already given warning of the hour to dress for dinner, when little Adèle, who knelt by me in the drawing-room window-seat, suddenly exclaimed—

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë