teetering

Council budgets are stretched, some teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, in part because of care costs.

They were stacked in teetering towers, jumbled in messy piles.

A house has been left teetering close to the edge of a crumbling cliff following significant rockfall along the Jurassic Coast.

A defeat that may not have confirmed the end of Ten Hag's time at Old Trafford but would certainly have left him teetering, closer than ever, to the edge.

From “A Separate Peace” to “Mean Girls: The Musical,” that teetering cusp between childhood and adulthood has fueled more modern literature, music, art, film and television than any four-year period save, perhaps, the world wars.