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was at the brink of death when the rescuers arrived
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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.
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Lauren Stienstra, Time, 17 Apr. 2025
That Maggie had gone to the very brink of extinguishing Negan.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 June 2025
In its penultimate episode, Paradise pushed us to think about what humanity will succumb to if the climate crisis we’ve been so warned about hits its brink.
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 21 Mar. 2025
Arresting climate change and the loss of species that will result is a critical step away from that brink, but one that policymakers and the public are embracing only slowly.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
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Lauren Stienstra, Time, 17 Apr. 2025
That Maggie had gone to the very brink of extinguishing Negan.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 June 2025
In its penultimate episode, Paradise pushed us to think about what humanity will succumb to if the climate crisis we’ve been so warned about hits its brink.
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 21 Mar. 2025
Arresting climate change and the loss of species that will result is a critical step away from that brink, but one that policymakers and the public are embracing only slowly.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for brink
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“Brink.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brink. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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