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precipice

Noun

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A sudden or headlong fall.

A headlong steep; a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff.

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As Mattia Binotto goes in to this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix, the team principal is navigating under intense pressure on a threatening precipice. Source: Internet

As Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Sanusi volunteered to be the pall-bearer of a Yoruba bank, Intercontinental Bank and sent some Southern sons and daughter to the precipice of a jailhouse and a penitentiary, respectively. Source: Internet

Even now, on the precipice of an election that may finally offer an exit from this infinite loop, the end of having to think about Trump seems nowhere close. Source: Internet

But at the same time, in a very Carrie Bradshaw-esque moment, I couldn’t help but wonder why I was feeling the need to reach out to him now, on the precipice of what I intended to be my spiritual awakening. Source: Internet

Bradstreet alludes to the temporality of motherhood by comparing her children to a flock of birds on the precipice of leaving home. Source: Internet

Elsewhere, 03 people died when a van veered off into a precipice in Rawana-Ella on the Ella – Wellawaya Road. Source: Internet

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