verge
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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
Golden Eagles on verge of first Coliseum League title.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
That now seems on the verge of changing forever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
And just like that, I’m on the verge of tears.
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
He also has a tendency to get starry-eyed around big-name pitchers; his awe of Mr. Skubal verges on sycophantic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Lower land costs and an expectation of a lesser or in fact no need for Buckinghamshire-style tunnels and verges would mean a much lower cost per mile of track.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
What worried him was that where it did so there were only very narrow verges of short grass, offering no cover.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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
A questionable outlet, the company obtained the results through a methodology so shady it verged on outright dishonesty: They used a definition of “tradwife” that bears no resemblance to the term’s actual meaning.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 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 colors deepened, glorifying Ishtar and pushing Nergal into a darkness that verged on consuming existence.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
Does it mean men’s tennis is verging on another Big Three?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
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
Hampden was verging on turning toxic when Greece slammed in a deserved opener after an hour of domination.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025
The audience in the Capitol will be getting bored, claiming that these Games are verging on dullness.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
Vocabulary lists containing verge
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 7–11
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