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Invasive mule deer are pushing native plants to the brink on Catalina Island.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2023

And then consider that Tuscarora took the Bulldogs to the brink on Friday in a 14-13 scare Stone Bridge pulled out on the back of its defense.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 23, 2017

Analysts point out that the government has neared the brink on reaching crucial financial agreements in the past without marketwide collapse.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2011

He stood himself on the brink: on the other side was Grey and the Squire.

From Robert Elsmere by Mrs. Humphry Ward

This fair girl, against whom we were all conspiring like so many traitors, was still ignorant of the fatal brink on which she stood.

From Castles in the Air by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy




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