precipice

He answered my phone call in South Carolina, while overlooking the Atlantic Ocean; his mother was on the precipice of getting married a second time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

On the precipice of World War II, the Dow Chemical Co. perfected a way to extract magnesium from ordinary seawater, giving America access to a virtually inexhaustible supply of a metal vital to modern warfare.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Maxine glides along, bathed in gratitude, making assured artistic decisions and certain that she is on the precipice of something that will change her life forever.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

The hotel, whose guests had reportedly been quietly asked to leave to accommodate the talks, loomed down from the mountain top precipice.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

He walked as if each step he took was driving a hated enemy toward a precipice.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Most of the sheep huddle in sleep, while the more adventurous ones and, predictably, the goats perch on rocky precipices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

In addition to groundwater depletion, rising insurance costs and extreme heat, the U.N. report highlights melting glaciers, ecosystem collapse and space debris as systems nearing precipices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

Landslides in Himachal Pradesh killed more than 50 people this month, with houses flattened and buses and cars hanging on the edge of precipices after roads gave way.

From Reuters ● Aug. 24, 2023

Too much focus on targets like 1.5°C can backfire if they are seen as precipices beyond which there is no redemption, says Tebaldi: “People feel this sense of disempowerment.”

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 9, 2021

It was a skyless world, in which his eye, through dim gulfs of shadowy air, saw only ever-mounting slopes, great walls of stone behind great walls, and frowning precipices wreathed with mist.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien