teetered

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Even as Lotus built icons like Esprit, which famously turned into a submarine in the 1977 James Bond film “The Spy Who Loved Me,” it often teetered on the brink of disaster.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 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

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

The scales did not represent justice, for they teetered.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton