Example Sentences

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The last-minute collapse of Marc Guehi's transfer to Liverpool is a story rooted in brinksmanship.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2025

It is not necessarily to Twitter’s discredit that it may have maneuvered its own internal rules to counteract this rhetorical brinksmanship.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2022

Any thought that this kind of harrowing brinksmanship had ended with the 1980s when the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and then U.S.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2022

While Stavridis was game for a collaboration, Ackerman was hesitant; tales of seafaring and high-level brinksmanship weren’t his thing.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2021

It was a bland, straightforward announcement, something of an anticlimax after so much presidential brinksmanship as to whether he would obey a “definitive” decision.

From Salon • Oct. 14, 2019