precipice
Example Sentences
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Today’s grads, with their entire professional lives before them, understand they are on the precipice of something big and carry the anxiety that comes with this knowledge.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Strains of the old "Glory, Glory" anthem echoed inside the giant stadium as Tottenham Hotspur stepped back from the precipice of the most humiliating relegation in Premier League history.
From BBC • May 24, 2026
At the precipice of an odyssey that will challenge the half-lives they’ve lived so far, the sisters’ anger is palpable.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
The band members are also at the precipice of something they thought impossible: a music career.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
He described having seen the truck ahead of his skid and go over a thousand-foot precipice; what was remarkable, he said, was the slowness with which it fell.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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