verge
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The company is on the verge of launching a new vehicle.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
"We're talking about one or two kilometres, and we're on the verge of achieving it," Yernaux told AFP, despite "sustained winds" blowing towards the German border.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Harris, from Canada, was 15 and "on the verge of independence" when she sustained a life-altering spinal cord injury, leaving her tetraplegic and requiring round the clock care.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Some of these, the authors own, verge on “technological gigantism,” such as a seven-bell trumpet patented in 1859 by Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Ayanna was on the verge of tears, and, seeing the brand flies pressing against Nyame’s forehead, I could understand why.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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
As he’s classically rendered, Soames verges on unpalatable.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
Residents of Hotham and North Cave, in East Yorkshire, say bags full of empty bottles have been turning up on grass verges for months.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
This two-part documentary may involve a similar species of wolf, an identical species of human and an argument that verges on a religious conflict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
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
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
England's gluttonous run-scoring on the opening day verged on tedium because of its one-sided nature.
From BBC ● May 23, 2025
He sputtered, a sound that verged on laughter, and tipped his head back, gazing at the faded gray sky.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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
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
He stood in front of me, towering, not even a hint of a smile, only worry and sadness and something verging on panic.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
Vocabulary lists containing verge
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 7–11
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