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verges (on)

verb

present tense third-person singular of verge (on)

as in adjoins

to be adjacent to our land verges on a wildlife refuge

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as in touches (on)

to come very close to being a comment that verged on an insult

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Flossmoor’s South Commuter Lot, which adjoins the village’s Metra station just steps from downtown, may be reimagined as a public park and community gathering space with the help of an Illinois Department of Natural Resources grant.

— Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
An elevated dining area adjoins a marble and wood kitchen, which features custom rift-oak cabinetry, top-tier stainless-steel appliances, and an oversized island with an integrated breakfast bar.

— Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 8 June 2026

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If the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party must be played in Atlanta for a year, 2026 seems to be the perfect time to do it.

— Jack Leo, AJC.com, 20 July 2026
Neither side seems in the mood to talk; both have said that the memorandum of understanding (MoU) agreed in June after weeks of tortuous negotiation is no longer in effect.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 20 July 2026

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Welcome to Derry, joins the cast as Mac, a drag racer who introduces Cole to the world of competitive racing.

— Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 19 July 2026
Devers joins Kyle Schwarber, Juan Soto and Matt Olson as the only players to hit at least 20 homers in each of the last eight full seasons (excluding 2020).

— Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 19 July 2026

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If the minimum wage instead reached $23 per hour, a full-time worker could earn more than $47,000 annually, a salary that more closely resembles a basic middle-class income rather than a poverty wage.

— Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 24 July 2026
That shape, whose contour resembles both an indecipherable ideogram and a flat asymmetrical spaceship, shows Parsons’s inventive side.

— John Yau, ARTnews.com, 24 July 2026

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