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verging (on)

verb

present participle of verge (on)
1
as in adjoining
to be adjacent to our land verges on a wildlife refuge

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
2
as in touching (on)
to come very close to being a comment that verged on an insult

Synonyms & Similar Words

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for verging (on)
  1. adjoining
  2. resembling
  3. joining
  4. flanking
  5. surrounding
  6. touching
  7. neighboring
Verb
  • Undeterred, the three friends bought the hotel and adjoining property for $3 million and have since spent over $10 million on renovations and redesign.
    — Madeleine Kashkooli, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The film could use a few more such colorful secondary strands adjoining the main conflict, though one subplot involving a maybe-romance between two jaded journalists assigned to the summit is oddly framed and abruptly dropped.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of adjoining
Verb
  • The contrast with Arsenal, a picture of stability, has dampened hopes of anything even remotely resembling a title race.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • But the film was just one component of a larger interactive media project that includes an actual website resembling the fake news site seen in the film.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of resembling
Verb
  • Murray tries to be the next successful project in purple, joining the Vikes after seven up-and-down years with the Arizona Cardinals.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Perhaps joining social media will allow Lawrence to get some of that control back.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of joining
Verb
  • Military officers read victims’ names as screens flanking them displayed their photos.
    — Jeremy Redmon, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026
  • This is part of its ongoing strategy of flanking stand-alone beauty stores to its wholesale distribution — which accounts for 95 percent of the business — and beauty corners housed in 30 of Dolce & Gabbana fashion boutiques worldwide.
    — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of flanking
Verb
  • And thanks to another recent state law — the Live Local Act — developers would be able to sidestep local zoning regulations, allowing for a project that would smash height restrictions to tower above all surrounding buildings.
    — Daniel Rivero, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Dillard’s work, though not exclusively about nature, often focused on the natural world, the cruelty and beauty of both flora and fauna, narrowing in on the extremity of the biological systems surrounding us.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of surrounding
Verb
  • Spanning automotive, steel, and agriculture, as well as government procurement, market access, and the future architecture of North American trade rules, the confrontation is now touching the deepest foundations of their economic relationship.
    — , CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The trade-off is that every option involves adhesive touching a surface.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of touching
Verb
  • Standing in the backyard of a house situated near a neighboring golf course, rider screams are certainly audible, and residents said the consistency of them is destroying their quality of life.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The rebel group’s swift advance in Yemen and attacks on neighboring Saudi Arabia in recent weeks have put the kingdom in an increasingly difficult position, facing the prospect of being drawn into a wider conflict as the US-Iran war drags on.
    — Eyad Kourdi, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of neighboring
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“Verging (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/verging%20%28on%29. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

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