verging

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We are drawn by the painting’s rich orchestration of warm and cool browns—from sludgy tan to super-charged ocher verging on sienna—and its seductive textures.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Sentiment gauges based on other inputs were suggesting that investors’ confidence might be verging on complacency.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 23, 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

With postwar guilt, he decried bratwurst, sauer- braten, and Konigsberger Klopse as dishes verging on poison.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides