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Recent Examples of brink
Hope still wafted through the 104,122 in attendance, especially after Reed drove the team downfield to brink of overtime, only to come up short on a touch pass the Hurricanes read well.
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Cedric Golden,
Austin American Statesman,
21 Dec. 2025
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.
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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.
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Collin Binkley,
Fortune,
30 Aug. 2025
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Cedric Golden,
Austin American Statesman,
21 Dec. 2025
Local wages, however, haven’t kept pace, pushing more and more households toward the financial brink.
—
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
See All Example Sentences for brink
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brink
verge
Noun
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Super Bowl veteran Matthew Stafford, on the verge of his 18th season, will get limited snaps in the offseason, leaving Bennett and Simpson to take additional first-team snaps.
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And Anthropic, the red-hot AI lab worth nearly a trillion dollars that’s on the verge of going public, has been at the center of those tensions.
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