over the edge
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Théodore remembers the AI slop that tipped him over the edge.
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She leaned over the edge, the dirt crumbling, trying to see the griffin in the dusk.
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Christopher stared about him for any sign of a woman with a fishing rod, but instead, over the edge of the boat there came a squirrel the size of a cat, with a blunt horn.
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He peered over the edge of the boat.
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Mal swung hungrily over the edge of the boat.
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