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are teetering

  • present progressive of teeter.

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For all that inflation has drifted gently down, many still feel their household finances are teetering.

From BBC Dec. 30, 2023

While few people grow their own corn, piles of ears are teetering at the supermarket or farm stand this time of year.

From Washington Times Jul. 27, 2023

If you’re like me, that can get the anxiety up a bit, feeling like the actors are teetering on the edge of everything falling apart.

From Seattle Times Dec. 6, 2022

They are teetering on a fall, if not perhaps a complete collapse.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 9, 2022

And a hundred million years later, Jordie Duros, Clayton Pouncey, and I are teetering across a darkened parking lot, struggling under the weight of an eighty-pound bag.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman