verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
on
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He was teetering on the brink of something serious.
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Instead Ralph pressed his fingers together and let the girl teeter on .
■ NOUN
brink
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A moment later, realising she was teetering on the brink of self-pity, she brought herself up short.
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The banking structure seemed to teeter on the brink of ruin.
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By the time we are all set to go to a club I am teetering on the brink .
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That was plainly evident in the locker room, where Hostetler teetered on the brink of openly losing his temper.
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He says that the country is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
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He was teetering on the brink of something serious.
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She had long teetered on the brink .
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The back row, from about the third day of classes on, teetered on the brink of chaos.
edge
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We are teetering on the edge of farce.
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Wednesday morning, during an hourlong session with reporters, Forbes appeared to be teetering on the edge of folding his campaign.
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Now he was teetering on the edge of the parapet.
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As the piece opens, he is in an internment camp, and she is teetering on the edge of madness.
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It is a dangerous moment, pregnant with hope teetering on the edge of despair.
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If it were as bad as its critics contend, our society would be teetering on the edge of extinction.
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He meant: to me, at the department store, and I felt myself teeter on the edge of something.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And rather than treading the boards ... they were teetering two feet above them.
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As the piece opens, he is in an internment camp, and she is teetering on the edge of madness.
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Gilling's ability to teeter between fantasy and plausibility recalls Dickens.What he imagines is equal to anything Prospero might have conjured.
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If it were as bad as its critics contend, our society would be teetering on the edge of extinction.
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Invariably our toes are unnaturally cramped into odd-shaped shoes and the feet raised because we choose to teeter around in high heels!
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The kegs shifted, teetered, fell!
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Wednesday morning, during an hourlong session with reporters, Forbes appeared to be teetering on the edge of folding his campaign.