Brink
Brink noun - An interval of time just before the onset of something.
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- Most forms of transport cut down on their use of fuel until the situation is rectified, hurting the world economy, while mutual suspicion among countries leads the world to the brink of war.
- In Carol Ryrie Brink's 1936 Baby Island, one of the two heroines describes the situation as "just one darn thing after another".
Source: Curse of the Ancients - A similar situation happens in Warhammer 40,000: brutal regimes like the Inquisition are not just important, but necessary, because the universe there is so damned dangerous and humans are the brink of extinction.
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