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“It does feel like we’re on the verge of something new. There’s a breakthrough that’s about to happen,” Henderson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

And you don’t need any charts to see what that means: Fiction is on the verge of becoming science.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

It's incredible - 20 years old and he's on the verge of winning his first championship, which I'm sure will be the first of many.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 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

When the war began in July 1914, the United States was on the verge of changing dramatically to a more modern society.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

Standing outdoors in all weathers, he painted hundreds of scenes of lush meadows and roadside verges.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 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

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

More goals are being scored, but the amount of pushing and pulling has at times verged on the farcical.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 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 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

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

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 a preoccupation, verging on obsession, that would inform his decisions, and guide his energies.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand