teetering on the brink/edge of
idiom
: close to being in a specified state or condition
The countries are teetering on the brink of war.
The bird is teetering on the edge of extinction.
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The bitcoin price, up more than double over the last year, has surged on a combination of Wall Street adoption, Trump enthusiasm and fears stoked by Tesla billionaire and X owner Elon Musk that the U.S. is teetering on the brink of financial collapse.
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Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team thinks that a dead stellar core, or white dwarf, daringly teetering on the edge of the black hole is the cause of increasingly frequent explosions of high-energy light.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 13 Jan. 2025
The flooding was so severe that a home teetering on the edge of the riverbank collapsed into the rising waters, images show.
—Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2024
Bourbon was aged for 19 years and three months, which Bhakta himself admits is pretty old for a bourbon, possibly teetering on the edge of drinkable.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2024
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Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team thinks that a dead stellar core, or white dwarf, daringly teetering on the edge of the black hole is the cause of increasingly frequent explosions of high-energy light.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 13 Jan. 2025
The flooding was so severe that a home teetering on the edge of the riverbank collapsed into the rising waters, images show.
—Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2024
Bourbon was aged for 19 years and three months, which Bhakta himself admits is pretty old for a bourbon, possibly teetering on the edge of drinkable.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2024
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