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Recent Examples of brink
Local wages, however, haven’t kept pace, pushing more and more households toward the financial brink.
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Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
The pandemic brought many of us to similar brinks.
—Eric Olson
september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
The strains on international enrollment only add to distress for schools already on the financial brink.
—Collin Binkley, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
On the more intense body-days, ours were taken to the absolute brink.
—Charlie Sheen, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
The pandemic brought many of us to similar brinks.
—Eric Olson
september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
The strains on international enrollment only add to distress for schools already on the financial brink.
—Collin Binkley, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
On the more intense body-days, ours were taken to the absolute brink.
—Charlie Sheen, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brink
verge
Noun
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The Tigers are on the verge of achieving the near-impossible — falling out of contention not just in one of the weakest divisions in baseball, but also in an underwhelming American League with six playoff spots available.—
Levi Weaver,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
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Plenty of gossip also leaked out from behind the scenes — rumors that the actors were overworked, and that Levinson’s constant and last-minute script changes cost time and money and drove some of them to the verge of quitting.—
Seija Rankin,
HollywoodReporter,
31 May 2026
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“Brink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brink. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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