teeter

Crisis strikes the kitchen when our forgotten, shelved-away ingredients teeter on the fine line between fresh and spoiled.

From Salon ● May 30, 2026

The characters in her novels long for stability in landscapes where the past is forever intruding on the present—they teeter on the shifting border between perception and fact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

If it can’t get payments from tenants quickly enough to cover its debt needs, the company’s business model could teeter.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2025

Until vaccination rates improve, we’ll teeter on the edge with this disease.

From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2025

Ten minutes later, I teeter on a six-inch-wide ledge hundreds of feet above the dunes, glaring daggers at Izzi.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

As a woman tells Mew, “the planet teeters on the brink of an appalling and irreversible alteration.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Broadcom earnings could be strong thanks to artificial intelligence demand, but shareholders should be prepared for a muted stock reaction as market sentiment teeters.

From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026

Yet despite his government's nimble response and Seychelles' remarkably swift economic bounce-back, his popularity teeters.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

An epic treehouse that has stood in Sherman Oaks for 24 years now teeters on the brink of destruction after the city of L.A. declared the whimsical creation a crime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

She teeters towards me; I wait for a sign.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

MP Materials, a volatile small-cap since its 2020 special-purpose acquisition company debut, has swung between boom and bust for rare-earth investors but has never teetered on the edge of failure.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

The company famously teetered on the edge of bankruptcy in 1996, surviving only through a $5 million cash injection from the Japanese videogame developer Sega.

From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026

The big financial institutions were intertwined by a web of complex financial instruments and vehicles that threatened to bring down the U.S. system as certain players teetered toward collapse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025

It teetered so ominously on its pole that some deputies joked about betting on when it would finally fall down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2025

He teetered a bit on his toes, then caught himself with the heel of his right hand, messing up part of the work he’d just done.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

If anything, Grande is having a blast - teetering around in perilous heels, blowing kisses to the audience and embracing the physical and vocal demands of her show.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

“These are not schools teetering at the edge of success,” reads the report, which cites publicly available state and local education data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Now that a majority of Americans own stocks, policymakers may find it hard to sit on the sidelines and not step in if the equity market is teetering, Balchunas said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026

Some were teetering on the verge of collapse and others had already fallen.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

Moving walls push the coins teetering on the ledges onto the next ledge down, and 10p coins falling off that ledge fall into your scoop.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell