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on the verge of
adjective as in likely
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- achievable
- anticipated
- assuring
- attainable
- believeable
- conceivable
- conjecturable
- credible
- destined
- disposed
- favorite
- given to
- imaginable
- in favor of
- in the cards
- in the habit of
- inferable
- liable
- odds-on
- ostensible
- plausible
- practicable
- predisposed
- presumable
- promising
- rational
- seeming
- subject to
- supposable
- tending
- thinkable
- true
- up-and-coming
- verisimilar
- workable
adverb as in almost
preposition as in about to
Example Sentences
Injured and out of the Avai U20 team, he was on the verge of giving up.
The City Section has added dozens of charter schools over the last 10 years, and one of those is on the verge of reaching Sacramento to play for a state basketball championship.
But the at-home LED market is on the verge of becoming a massive industry - with masks and other devices retailing for anything from £40 to £1,500.
Pam Bondi is still pretending she's on the verge of a big reveal about the crimes of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
In an attempt to gain some perspective on this dizzying time, the potential for more wars and armed conflict, and an international order that feels increasingly dystopic and on the verge of anarchy and chaos, I recently spoke with Robert D. Kaplan.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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