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Recent Examples of brink
The strains on international enrollment only add to distress for schools already on the financial brink.
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Collin Binkley, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
That Maggie had gone to the very brink of extinguishing Negan.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 June 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
On the more intense body-days, ours were taken to the absolute brink.
—Charlie Sheen, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Collin Binkley, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
That Maggie had gone to the very brink of extinguishing Negan.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 June 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
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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Realistically, Boston is right on the verge of real championship contention.—
Tim Crowley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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Loewe In the Loewe show, new creative directors Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez displayed many versions of a rigid kitten-heel pump with a high vamp that made the style verge into bootie territory.—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Brink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brink. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.
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