brinks

plural of brink
as in verges
an interval of time just before the onset of something was at the brink of death when the rescuers arrived

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Noun
  • Enyedi has often made meditative cinema, but here her restraint in some sequences verges on suffocating.
    Leila Latif, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The film takes a fun detour in the third act into what almost verges into horror territory.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Chase Joynt is a non-fiction filmmaker and writer who works at the edges of genre.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Today, crews continued to make significant progress improving fire lines along the southern, eastern, and western edges of the fire.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Brinks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brinks. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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