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Recent Examples of brink
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.
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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
In its penultimate episode, Paradise pushed us to think about what humanity will succumb to if the climate crisis we’ve been so warned about hits its brink.
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 21 Mar. 2025
Arresting climate change and the loss of species that will result is a critical step away from that brink, but one that policymakers and the public are embracing only slowly.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
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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
In its penultimate episode, Paradise pushed us to think about what humanity will succumb to if the climate crisis we’ve been so warned about hits its brink.
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 21 Mar. 2025
Arresting climate change and the loss of species that will result is a critical step away from that brink, but one that policymakers and the public are embracing only slowly.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brink
verge
Noun
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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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This time, Notre Dame (fifth in the coaches poll and sixth by the Associated Press) will face another Hurricanes bunch (10th in both polls) claiming to sit on the verge of ressurecting its glory of the 1980s and 1990s.—
Terence Moore,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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