Precipice in example sentence

In the Cuban missile crisis, the US and the Soviet Union stumbled to the precipice of nuclear war, not because of any desire for one (except among a few hothead extremists), but because of a series of miscalculations and pressure exerted by hardliners.

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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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