as in cliff
a steep wall of rock, earth, or ice scaled the steep precipice with the ease of an experienced climber

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Recent Examples of precipice Women’s professional sports are at the precipice of a potentially massive transformation. Meena Lakdawala-Flynn, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024 Ravens cornerbacks might be on the precipice of similar shuffling. Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2024 On the precipice of tying the all-time wins record for a Nuggets head coach, Malone stayed in Denver to watch his daughter Bridget’s high school volleyball team compete in the state tournament Friday night. Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024 The director of Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s formidable AI lab, recognized the Swedish area code on his phone and froze, unable to believe what was on the precipice of happening. Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for precipice 

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“Precipice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precipice. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.

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