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Recent Examples of brink
The strains on international enrollment only add to distress for schools already on the financial brink.
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Collin Binkley, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
That Maggie had gone to the very brink of extinguishing Negan.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 June 2025
And not ancient or biblical history either—the 20th century is ripe with examples of how the world was pushed to a moral, ethical, and existential brink, only for unsung champions to pull us all back to safety.
—Lauren Stienstra, Time, 17 Apr. 2025
On the more intense body-days, ours were taken to the absolute brink.
—Charlie Sheen, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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verge
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About 35 kilometers upstream lies the city of Port Coquitlam, which marks the eastern verge of greater Vancouver.—
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After their 2021 Super Bowl appearance, the Bengals, led by Burrow and Chase, went 12-4 in 2022 before posting back-to-back 9-8 seasons in 2023 and 2024, and now sit on the verge of their first losing campaign since 2020.—
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“Brink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brink. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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