teeter
verb (used without object)
to move unsteadily.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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But I am teetering on the edge of grief’s mouth, and if I returned to my parents’ old faction, it would swallow me.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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