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as in brink
an interval of time just before the onset of something the suspect was on the verge of confessing when the officers realized that he hadn't been read his rights

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“Verge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/verge. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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