brink
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And the country's health system -- already weakened by over a decade of civil war -- is on the brink.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Georgia transfer Carson Beck used his only year as Miami’s starter to lead the Hurricanes to the brink of a national championship in their first ever playoff appearance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Just 18 years ago, the club was on the brink.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
But it had been beset by corruption allegations and was on the brink of insolvency.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
Before Frodo could stop him, he sat down, swung his legs over the brink, and twisted round, scrabbling with his toes for a foothold.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
“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
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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