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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

V was joined by his bandmate Jungkook, who talked about a shin injury he has been dealing with during the tour, saying he was "on the verge of developing a stress fracture".

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Tattoo artist Andres Hernandez said he was worried about his family and friends, adding that he would stay awake because structures around him were "on the verge of collapsing."

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

He joins the Dodgers just as Blake Snell—another two-time Cy Young winner—is on the verge of returning from the injured list.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

Here, then, we seem to be on the verge of that fusion of human and animal identity that distinguishes the earliest historical religions of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

"When you walk past the verges and see them all being left as they should be, it's brilliant," Taylor said.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 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

I pushed against the earth, trying to stand, and found my fingers tangled among the cool, waxy leaves of the mallow plant that clung to the marshy verges of the river.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

But did he realise that these stunts verged on self-parody?

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

The result in Beijing verged at times towards collective paranoia.

From Barron's ● May 15, 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

He was a northerner, with black curls that verged on womanish, an effect he tempered with his carefully tended beard.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

Four England players were shown yellow cards after the break, with former scrum-half Matt Dawson describing their discipline as "verging on comical".

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

These landscapes, portraits and figures, often verging on pastiche, present an academic artist rather than a painter: too much mind, not enough heart.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 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