at the threshold
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Delivering a toast, he said: "A blessing to the kinship between the Irish and Canadian people, may we always meet each other at the threshold and cross it together."
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
For a second, our vehicle lingered at the threshold.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025
Clearly, we are at the threshold of epochal change.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2025
We’re all here together, at the threshold of the year that will be.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2024
And then I could smell it, even more pungent than the house’s other stinks, and I could feel it at the threshold of the room.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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