Precipice in example sentence

The Cuban crisis began on October 16, 1962, when National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy presented to Kennedy photographs showing that the Soviet Union, then led by Nikita Khrushchev, had placed on the island – just 90 miles (145 kilometers) from Florida – ballistic missiles capable of launching nuclear weapons at major US cities.Suddenly, the world was on the precipice of a nuclear exchange that could lead to global annihilation.

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The problem is when we're on a precipice, right?

So what you see, that precipice, that high precipice with the valley, is the 2008 financial crisis.

And this is such a critical issue for us because if we don't do that, we're going to watch more of these animals plunge off the precipice.

And we climbed up and we got to the very top, and we're on the edge, on this precipice, Roland disappears into the sulfur smoke at the volcano at the other end, and I'm up there alone on this incredible precipice.

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