perilously
Americanadverb
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The get-rich ethos that defines our time may be only rivaled by our perilously tantalizing obsession with vengeance.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Hitchens added: “A culture that does not possess this common store of image and allegory will be a perilously thin one.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
See: America’s crude inventories are getting perilously low.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
"Farke will have been nervous about the fact that Leeds were going perilously close to relegation. This victory goes a long way to securing their Premier League status."
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026
By then, the funding for the sixty-inch cyclotron was running perilously short.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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