brink
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It is also enough preparation to save me, occasionally, from the particular 7 p.m. brink where ordering takeout begins to feel less like a choice than an inevitability.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
The nation’s third largest city isn’t teetering on the brink of insolvency like Detroit in 2013.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
And catching bird flu can push our most threatened species, such as the orange-bellied parrot, to the brink of extinction.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
Yemen's years-long civil conflict killed tens of thousands of people, uprooted millions and drove the country to the brink of famine before a 2022 truce restored relative calm.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
They arrived at the brink of the ravine.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
“Terry gone need a brinks truck,” Commanders safety Jeremy Reaves tweeted shortly after Kirk’s deal.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
This week, talks are on the brinks of collapse, the British government may be breaking the law, and terrifying deadlines are looming.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2020
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
With countless hair-pin, hair-raising turns, our road wound upward, bordered on one hand by the brinks of precipices, on the other by bare walls of rock.
From Italy at War and the Allies in the West by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell
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