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“We’re on the verge of something game-changing in Crypto and DeFi,” Steve Witkoff tweeted in early August 2024.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

See: Semiconductor stocks are on the verge of a bear market.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 19, 2026

The diminishing returns of instant gratification might explain why catalogs are nearly always, according to trade publications and business journals, on the verge of a renaissance.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

Hernández, on the verge of a rehab assignment, is on a faster track to return than Roberts initially expected.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

Håkon struggled against the creature, but it held him in place, so close that it was on the verge of enveloping Håkon in the cloud swirling around it.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

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

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

Receiving just over 50% of the votes, Barnes said how important it was for her to work for local people and pledged to focus on improving potholes and grass verges.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 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

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

My bladder verged on explosion because of the crazy amount of water we were forced to drink to stay hydrated.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

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

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

Six seasons of TV and three feature films depict servitude as a benevolent state, sometimes verging on jolly.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025

With postwar guilt, he decried bratwurst, sauer- braten, and Konigsberger Klopse as dishes verging on poison.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides