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Recent Examples of precipice
These people are sitting on the precipice of the greatest technology ever created that has no parallel.
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Brian Welk, IndieWire, 18 Mar. 2026
Yet there was Garcia — who was playing in his first WBC — standing on the precipice of history with a can of gasoline.
—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 17 Mar. 2026
For the better part of four seasons, Young appeared on the precipice of not just breaking through for one win but going on a run of several big-time championship victories.
—Justin Ray, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
The former shows a figurine of a young woman rolling through a pinball machine that throws her in different directions and down chutes, always seemingly on the precipice of falling into an abyss.
—Jada Yuan, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
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Brian Welk, IndieWire, 18 Mar. 2026
Yet there was Garcia — who was playing in his first WBC — standing on the precipice of history with a can of gasoline.
—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 17 Mar. 2026
For the better part of four seasons, Young appeared on the precipice of not just breaking through for one win but going on a run of several big-time championship victories.
—Justin Ray, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
The former shows a figurine of a young woman rolling through a pinball machine that throws her in different directions and down chutes, always seemingly on the precipice of falling into an abyss.
—Jada Yuan, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for precipice
Noun
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But his landscape paintings of the stony canyons and craggy cliffs that define this part of the country seem to be everywhere these days.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
30 Mar. 2026
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There’s a couple of reasons why AI earnings may soon reach a cliff and end up in a market correction.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
29 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Just as the sun prepared to sink beyond the escarpments, its rays struck every piece of the fractured glass resting on top of the window frames, alighting all of them at once, as if they were shot with electricity.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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As the sun dropped and the temperature fell, Scarabeo Roches Noires emerged on the horizon, a small cluster of white tents perched on a rocky escarpment.—
Fergus Scholes,
TheWeek,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Precipice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precipice. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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