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• Barnes grew up in the house now teetering on the edge of the riverbank.
  — Raquel Coronell Uribe, NBC News, 26 June 2024
• The Arizona deserts may be teetering on the edge of a superbloom.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 3 Feb. 2023
• Three years on, the Southeast Asian nation is teetering on the brink of failed statehood.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
• Back in her banking days, those stumbles often meant teetering on the edge of a glass cliff.
  — Beth Greenfield, Fortune, 2 July 2024
• President Joe Biden's student loan debt relief plan is teetering on the edge of a Supreme Court cliff.
  — Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2023
• Advertisement Our recent lack of rain has the region teetering on the edge of drought.
  — Matt Ross, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
• Seven starts into his second season, Kershaw was teetering on the brink of a return to the other side of the bridge.
  — Andy McCullough, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2024
• On this planet, all fates are intertwined, and right now, one million species are teetering on the edge of oblivion.
  — Vulture, 16 Aug. 2023
• The flooding was so severe that a home teetering on the edge of the riverbank collapsed into the rising waters, images show.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 June 2024
• At this point in the year, many find themselves at a crossroads, teetering on the edge of abandoning their resolutions and dreams.
  — Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• Straight masculinity has been teetering on the brink of self-defeat since 2017.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 11 July 2023
• For Everton, a founding member of the Premier League now teetering on the brink of financial collapse, the new charges could not come at a worse time.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• There’s an excitement and an urgency, a feeling of teetering on the edge of something.
  — Lisa Tozzi, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023
• The 15-year-old stands out, teetering on the edge of becoming overly oaky but pulling back just in time with rich notes of leather, tobacco, vanilla, and brown sugar.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 15 May 2024
• But even the stronger players are now teetering on the brink of default, underscoring the challenges Beijing faces to contain the crisis.
  — Laura He, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023
• Experts fear the spread of waterborne diseases like cholera and dysentery, which would put more pressure on a health system already teetering on the edge of collapse.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
• Jeffrey, in direct sunlight, seemed to be teetering on the brink of doubt, his forehead sweaty, real pain discernible in his Canadian eyes.
  — Lauren Oyler, Harper's Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
• To make matters worse, his hometown of Millersberg is teetering on the edge of economic disaster.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 10 Jan. 2023
• Tesla produced its first car model, the Roadster, shortly thereafter, in 2008, but was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• The evacuation of the eight Americans, one Canadian and one French volunteer comes as Haiti is teetering on the brink of collapse.
  — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
• The company, which grew to prominence during the Covid-19 pandemic as the maker of one of the only molecular at-home tests for the virus, has been teetering on the edge of insolvency for months.
  — Brittany Trang, STAT, 22 May 2024
• After years of teetering on the brink of state collapse, there has been recent cause for hope in Guatemala, with the election of Bernardo Arévalo as president last August.
  — John Washington, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
• Related stories: Why is Pakistan teetering on the brink of default?
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 9 May 2023
• The automaker is still currently teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
  — Lawrence Hodge / Jalopnik, Quartz, 7 May 2024
• Belgian e-bike maker Cowboy has released a free app to keep rival VanMoof owners on the road now that the Dutch company is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
  — Thomas Ricker, The Verge, 13 July 2023
• In a related action, the government shut down Signature Bank, a regional bank that was teetering on the brink of collapse in recent days.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
• With most of the community flattened, survivors worked to clear debris, recover the dead and steer the living away from buildings teetering on the edge of collapse from aftershocks.
  — Sam Metz and Mosa'ab Elshamy, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
• With most of the community flattened, survivors worked to clear debris, recover the dead, and steer the living away from buildings teetering on the edge of collapse from aftershocks.
  — Sam Metz and Mosa'ab Elshamy, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
• From the quaint township of Nibelheim, to the post-industrial crags of Corel, and the arid wastelands on Midgar’s outskirts, Cloud and his companions discover a land teetering on the brink of disaster.
  — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2024
• But underneath the noise, the events all carried the same signal: that far from a rising behemoth, as it is often portrayed by the U.S. media and American leaders, China is teetering on the edge of a cliff.
  — Jonathan Tepperman, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024