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Recent Examples of brink
Man Utd and Tottenham on brink of face-off for Europa League title
(CBS)
Football is never done until it’s done — Manchester United’s ‘portrait of pandemonium’ against Lyon proved that — but there’s only minor jeopardy in predicting that the Europa League is headed for an all Premier League final.
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Phil Hay, New York Times, 2 May 2025
And not ancient or biblical history either—the 20th century is ripe with examples of how the world was pushed to a moral, ethical, and existential brink, only for unsung champions to pull us all back to safety.
—Lauren Stienstra, Time, 17 Apr. 2025
Failure to act will push more seniors to the financial brink, further jeopardizing their health and well-being.
—Katie Dempsey, Boston Herald, 27 Mar. 2025
On the more intense body-days, ours were taken to the absolute brink.
—Charlie Sheen, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Phil Hay, New York Times, 2 May 2025
And not ancient or biblical history either—the 20th century is ripe with examples of how the world was pushed to a moral, ethical, and existential brink, only for unsung champions to pull us all back to safety.
—Lauren Stienstra, Time, 17 Apr. 2025
Failure to act will push more seniors to the financial brink, further jeopardizing their health and well-being.
—Katie Dempsey, Boston Herald, 27 Mar. 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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Enyedi has often made meditative cinema, but here her restraint in some sequences verges on suffocating.—
Leila Latif,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
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During the 2008 Great Financial Crisis, the federal government was compelled to rescue key companies vital to the nation’s economy, such as General Motors, Chrysler, Citigroup, and AIG, from the verge of collapse.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Brink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brink. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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