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• The trail is a mere five feet wide in spots and close to the edge of what seems like the sky.
  — Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2021
• The Bearcats have been living way too close to the edge lately.
  — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2022
• Don't worry if the polish ends up too close to the edge.
  — Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com, 18 Aug. 2022
• Have kids keep the page close to the edge of the table so elbows remain close to the body.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
• Grandma places microwaved noodle soup too close to the edge of a counter, and the baby pulls it down on her own face.
  — Rachel Pearson, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2021
• Miggy talks, hits Designated hitter Miguel Cabrera got close to the edge of the dugout when Cruz, his friend, stepped to the plate.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2020
• The test flight didn’t come close to the edge of space, but the prototype was a big step toward the rocket’s first orbital mission.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 9 Dec. 2020
• The stylus needs to be positioned as close to the edge as possible, and the bottom side of the phone needs to have flat corners.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 11 Nov. 2021
• One of the main goals of the telescope is to study distant galaxies close to the edge of observable universe.
  — Marcia Rieke, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2021
• For each burn, ensure that the wax is getting liquefied as close to the edge of that glass ring as possible.
  — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• The robot’s little feet kept darting perilously close to the edge of the platform, then back to safety.
  — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
• Let the cake cool in the pan set over a wire rack for about 15 minutes, then run a butter knife close to the edge of the pan to release the cake and invert it onto a serving plate.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021
• Mareai Meh, 14, walked close to the edge, got in position and looked down at the water before stepping back again, as others jumped in around her.
  — Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2022
• Occasionally during this last act, people can get too close to the edge.
  — Madeleine Hordinski, The Enquirer, 8 Dec. 2022
• Holtec presented a map that showed major geologic structures (faults, etc) close to the edge of the basin, and the swarm in Figure 1 appears to overly a dense part of the structures.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 3 Apr. 2021
• The commission received 12 reports of the candles burning too close to the edge of the container, causing the glass to crack, according to the recall notice.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 25 Feb. 2023
• Ross’ room was close to the edge of the property, allowing the reporter to chat with him from the sidewalk under the watchful eyes of a bearded security guard.
  — David Calvert, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2021
• But even then, sometimes the foam will get scarily close to the edge and stirring the marmalade, counterintuitively, makes the foaming worse.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022
• The floating baskets need to be sturdy enough to withstand the roiling waters of the shipping channel, which are churned up by the propellers of the giant lake freighters that move up and down the river, often very close to the edge.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2021
• But frontline workers generally feel the impact of rising prices more because many do not earn a living wage or otherwise live close to the edge.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2021
• There are also anti-bump and anti-cliff sensors, which detect when the vacuum is nearing a tricky roadblock or getting dangerously close to the edge of a stair.
  — Rachel Simon, PEOPLE.com, 23 Mar. 2022
• Fires are still won and lost through grueling work on the field and relatively low-tech tactics such as burning strategic areas close to the edge of an active fire to slow or stop its progress and spraying water and foam to slow the blazes.
  — Marcello Rossi, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• When the airliner comes to rest perilously close to the edge of a ravine with the surviving passengers and crew trapped in an air pocket, a nightmare fight for survival ensues with the air supply running out and dangers creeping in from all sides.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 27 Oct. 2021
• Dry Cleaning’s performance style, often characterized by a stream-of-consciousness approach to lyricism teetering close to the edge of coherence, feels unconventional in the space of The Tonight Show but not out of place.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024