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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A single unwise maneuver would have sent Robinson and his skiff plunging over the precipice .
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Above me, a precipice of unbroken rock.
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I was privately grateful that it was too dark to make out the edge of the precipice .
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Resting his weight on his bended knee, he was staring motionless over a precipice towards the lake.
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Ruth wanted to reach out and pull him back, as if he were moving towards a precipice .
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The howlers were skirting the scary precipice of extinction.