teeter
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Justice’s control of the Greenbrier began to teeter in 2024, as he ran for Senate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Crisis strikes the kitchen when our forgotten, shelved-away ingredients teeter on the fine line between fresh and spoiled.
From Salon ● May 30, 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
I teeter to one side and Crick helps me stand.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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It provides huge ratings to networks that are generally suffering from viewership declines as traditional media teeters, cord-cutting continues and subscription streaming services nab a growing amount of U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
This opening by Havana, a serious breach in the island's anti-capitalist system, comes as the Cuban economy teeters on the brink of collapse.
From Barron's ● Mar. 21, 2026
The film is so committed to its rigors — the two-person cast, the glacial camera pivots, the moody lighting — that it teeters on the line of becoming monotonous.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
The rest of Sudan teeters on the edge of disaster.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2025
Timber splinters, as though the rubble teeters on some final fulcrum.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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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
England's Ashes tour teetered on another crisis as they were bowled out for 110 by Australia on an almost farcical first day of the fourth Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
“Many of the key teachings from OneTaste teetered between helping and harming the student,” she writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
Knotted round each other, they teetered, clutched, swayed.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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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
And a hundred million years later, Jordie Duros, Clayton Pouncey, and I are teetering across a darkened parking lot, struggling under the weight of an eighty-pound bag.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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