Example Sentences

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How will we know if or when we are teetering on the edge of recession?

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

See more: Stocks are teetering on the edge of correction territory.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 22, 2026

Small NPR and PBS stations in California are teetering after Congress pulled funding from public broadcasting.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025

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

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2023

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