verge

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

McCarthy was on the verge of leading the New York Giants to an unthinkable comeback last Sunday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The news release slammed Milton for “selling investors a story that his company Nikola was on the verge of delivering zero‑emission trucking,” adding his deceitful marketing campaign “overstated technology.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

Annnnnnnd the cords of muscle in his forearm look on the verge of popping through his skin.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

"Every time I drive up a road, as I'm driving I still look at the verges, I can't stop myself," says Nicola.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 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

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

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

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

She had maintained, too, her old way of holding her head in a manner that verged on the defiant.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

McCandless viewed running as an intensely spiritual exercise, verging on religion.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer