verge
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Two months later, on the verge of bankruptcy, People Express sold out to Texas Air for roughly half the price it could have gotten in July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Paramount, on the verge of acquiring Warner Bros.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
But don’t confuse overpriced IPOs with a market on the verge of collapse.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
One video played in court, filmed days after the fire, showed an emotional Rinderknecht sitting in his car wondering if he was on the verge of a “mental breakdown.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
And now communism, the only way of life he had ever known, seemed on the verge of total collapse.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
"When you walk past the verges and see them all being left as they should be, it's brilliant," Taylor said.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
And at times “Kenrex” verges on caricature in its depiction of rural life as a lawless Wild Midwest, garnished by such down-home delicacies as “a deep fried barbecue chili cheese dog with bacon crumbles.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Releasing a film like “Michael” into that universe isn’t bold; it verges on idiotic.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026
This two-part documentary may involve a similar species of wolf, an identical species of human and an argument that verges on a religious conflict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
Hedgerows and verges were at their rankest and thickest.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
But did he realise that these stunts verged on self-parody?
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
The result in Beijing verged at times towards collective paranoia.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
On social media, the schadenfreude has verged on gleeful, with the public picking up on even the smallest references to confirm their priors and their thirst for justice is palpable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
The energy, the motion, the kavorka forever verged on chaos.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2024
She had maintained, too, her old way of holding her head in a manner that verged on the defiant.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sear the thighs skin-side down in a wide skillet until the fat renders and the skin turns deeply golden, verging on bronze.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026
Sentiment gauges based on other inputs were suggesting that investors’ confidence might be verging on complacency.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025
A plant that was once romantic is now, some fear, verging on the apocalyptic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
Japanese politics is a usually steady ship, verging on the boring most of the time.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2025
He had a strong jawline, fine, regular features, gray eyes verging into blue, and he drew covert glances from many of the young women sitting on the grass.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Vocabulary lists containing verge
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 7–11
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