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Recent Examples of brink
Local wages, however, haven’t kept pace, pushing more and more households toward the financial brink.
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Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
The pandemic brought many of us to similar brinks.
—Eric Olson
september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
The strains on international enrollment only add to distress for schools already on the financial brink.
—Collin Binkley, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
On the more intense body-days, ours were taken to the absolute brink.
—Charlie Sheen, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
The pandemic brought many of us to similar brinks.
—Eric Olson
september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
The strains on international enrollment only add to distress for schools already on the financial brink.
—Collin Binkley, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
On the more intense body-days, ours were taken to the absolute brink.
—Charlie Sheen, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brink
verge
Noun
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Trump has suggested that Russia or China may be on the verge of seizing Greenland, a notion that regional experts have dismissed.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 May 2026
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Glamorous on the verge of vulgar, elegant yet unrestrained, and unmistakably luxurious.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
17 May 2026
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