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And now the tech bubble — not the money one but the cultural one — is on the verge of getting the populist “pop,” too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Nine years later, the Italian is on the verge of clinching his first title.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 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

Then, Herbie Farnworth conceded a sloppy penalty on the verge of half-time when accidentally tripping Watene-Zelezniak off the ball.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

When Theo got to this part of the story, he told me he was on the verge of howling.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

The film is such a Christmas perennial it verges on the liturgical, and why not?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 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

In one direction lay the entire cancellation of HS2, despite the viaducts, tunnels, verges, bat protection facilities, and floating platforms that have already been built.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

Hedgerows and verges were at their rankest and thickest.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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

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

The colors deepened, glorifying Ishtar and pushing Nergal into a darkness that verged on consuming existence.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

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

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