verge

Example Sentences

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A top banking regulator is on the verge of letting crypto firms become banks.

From The Wall Street Journal

“So when biology becomes programmable like this, entire industries change. Just like software ate media, just like software ate retail, software is now on the verge of eating medicine,” he said.

From MarketWatch

A hundred and five years later, Iran is on that verge again.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dorsey, 49, cited rapidly improving artificial-intelligence models as the primary reason, fueling anxieties the technology was on the verge of wiping out white-collar jobs and devastating the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal

I’d thought the danger of the Cocoon had been real before, but now that I was on the verge of getting caught, it all seemed to hit home just that much harder.

From Literature