verging

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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

ETFs, we are verging on becoming a country that has more ETFs offering various baskets of stocks than we have actual stocks.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2025

My chance of survival was bleak, verging on nonexistent.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda