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on/at the threshold

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• The door now seems open to them, and the Philippous aren’t ones to linger on the threshold.
  — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
• Yet even on the threshold of growth, a question lingers.
  — David Streitfeld, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2023
• Posey, who got a nine-year deal, was 26 and on the threshold of a third World Series title.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2021
• Place a piece of paper on the threshold (the bottom trim in the doorway), close the door and see whether the paper pulls out easily.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
• And Iran is on the threshold of becoming a nuclear-armed state.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 15 May 2024
• North Korea has built and tested nuclear weapons, and Iran is on the threshold of being able to build them.
  — Gregory L. Schulte, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2010
• There’s a caveat on the threshold of voter approval for tax proposals.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2024
• Oregon salmon anglers are on the threshold of a fishing tsunami.
  — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 11 June 2022
• That technology is now at the threshold of real-world use.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 22 May 2024
• My son was now on the threshold of college, my daughter a recent graduate.
  — Martha McPhee, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• Artisan Gateway shows the Chinese box office on the threshold of a $7 billion total for the year.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Nov. 2023
• The video shows Lynch collapsing on the threshold and crawling a few feet before being subdued.
  — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022
• But on the threshold of running Italy, Ms. Meloni has pivoted.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2022
• The computing world stands on the threshold of something equal parts exciting and alarming.
  — Grégoire Ribordy, Forbes, 24 May 2021
• Essentially, because many of them look to be on the threshold of bankruptcy.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Dec. 2022
• Much could ride on a raft of smaller parties that are on the threshold of reaching the minimum of 5 percent of the vote needed to enter parliament.
  — Ladka Bauerova, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2023
• The next morning, a neighbor found Gilpin's and her husband Rodney's bodies at the threshold of their Jefferson City apartment.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024
• The American Youth Symphony was on the threshold of its 60th anniversary.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
• The definition of a supermoon can vary, though, depending on the threshold used to determine if a full moon is close enough to Earth to qualify.
  — NBC News, 23 June 2021
• Their encounter, a meeting at the threshold of life and death, is tense, but in their eye contact is something familiar: a chilling flash of mutual recognition.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2024
• That's right on the threshold of conscious perception, almost 'subliminal' but not quite.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2012
• Now, according to a recent poll, over 75% of Finns support applying for full membership – something that, by all reports, Finland is now on the threshold of doing.
  — Gordon F. Sander, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2022
• As the governor is at the threshold of releasing a revised budget this month, the financial picture is decidedly gloomy.
  — Vik Jolly, Sacramento Bee, 8 May 2024
• Several attendees wore buttons calling for a ceasefire in the region, and protesters demanding the same clashed with police on the threshold of the Oscars' red carpet.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2024
• Still, Kuperberg says, the results show physicists are on the threshold of using imperfect physical qubits to make much better logical ones.
  — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 22 Feb. 2023
• The concept of liminality, which has been around since at least the early 20th century, commonly refers to the psychological condition of being on the threshold of a new life stage.
  — Jake Pitre, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022
• Sophie has recently turned eleven, and Corio poises her, with startling assurance, on the threshold between unknowing and knowing.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2022
• The characters in these songs are disconnected and desperate, often balanced on the threshold of violence as a last, or sometimes only, resort.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 15 Aug. 2022
• The two-dimensional grid is one of the few cases where mathematicians have proved what happens exactly at the threshold: infinite clusters don’t form.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
• However, because the Heat stand at the threshold of the NBA luxury-tax line for excessive payroll, the team is expected to go with a maximum of 14 players under standard contract at the start of the regular season.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025