precipice

"The entire industry is on a precipice... I don't know any independent hospitality businesses that are making any money," he explains.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

At the precipice of the financial crisis, the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with their implicit government guarantee and imprimatur, either securitized or guaranteed roughly half of all mortgages in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

At the precipice of an odyssey that will challenge the half-lives they’ve lived so far, the sisters’ anger is palpable.

From Salon ● May 19, 2026

Cuba 10 years ago appeared on the precipice of rejoining the wider world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026

At last they were going in single file along the edge of a precipice and Shasta shuddered to think that he had done the same last night without knowing it.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

Most of the sheep huddle in sleep, while the more adventurous ones and, predictably, the goats perch on rocky precipices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

In addition to groundwater depletion, rising insurance costs and extreme heat, the U.N. report highlights melting glaciers, ecosystem collapse and space debris as systems nearing precipices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

Landslides in Himachal Pradesh killed more than 50 people this month, with houses flattened and buses and cars hanging on the edge of precipices after roads gave way.

From Reuters ● Aug. 24, 2023

Too much focus on targets like 1.5°C can backfire if they are seen as precipices beyond which there is no redemption, says Tebaldi: “People feel this sense of disempowerment.”

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 9, 2021

He had spoken to the Mountain of Gont, calming it, and had stilled the trembling precipices of the Overfell as one soothes a frightened beast.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin