Cusp
Cusp noun - An interval of time just before the onset of something.
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Decline
Decline noun - A gradual sinking and wasting away of mind or body.
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The Spacers, an earlier wave of colonists that turned against their homeworld, are at the cusp of stabilization and decline in the Robot novels.
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Unlike the world of Human Revolution, society as we know it is no longer on the cusp of a golden age, but seems to be drifting into the decline that leads into the original Deus Ex game.
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