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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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In analyzing the cases of murder exonerees who sued, the Tribune found cases typically spawned roughly 300 docket entries and cost taxpayers nearly $900,000 in legal defense fees as the city often took the cases to the verge of trial before agreeing to pay.—
Joe Mahr,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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The Nasdaq had closed on the verge of correction Friday — a decline of 10% from a recent peak.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
23 Mar. 2026
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