brink
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But it had been beset by corruption allegations and was on the brink of insolvency.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
New England quarterback Drake Maye was on the brink of an opening night turnaround.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
By Thursday’s close it sat 2.7% shy of the record high hit last month, hobbled by a global bond market selloff that’s pushed U.S. benchmark borrowing costs to the brink of 5%.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Either way, the city is energized and on the brink of surpassing its pre-pandemic tourism numbers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
And in the Soviet Union, while walking along the Black Sea waterfront with his minister of defense, Nikita Khrushchev proposed an idea that would push the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
“Terry gone need a brinks truck,” Commanders safety Jeremy Reaves tweeted shortly after Kirk’s deal.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
But these maniacs, these geneticists, these people are literally pushing the plant to the upper brinks.
From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2021
Speaking of brinks, Oregon seemed to find one hurriedly.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2019
No one else could have moved Sierra Leone from the brinks of collapse to the threshold of prosperity with the time Pa Kabba did.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2014
At the brinks of these ravines they saw big apes and sometimes lions and panthers.
From In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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