precipice

It was two weeks ago, and our startup was on the precipice of a major launch.

"One step below" is dangerously close to the precipice.

I feel like we are standing on the precipice of a hole so scary no one really wants to look down at it.

Property taxes in particular almost ensure that you are always on the edge of a precipice that can lead to the loss of your home.

Really, I'm just thinking about the precipice of supervised and unsupervised learning here.

I hope that my story of how I walked right up to the precipice of death and decided to turn back to life helps anyone who is also struggling with such issues.

We're not on the precipice of technological advancements in transportation?

I have suffered enough in business to actually understand how a person can get there, how, before you know it, mental stress and anguish walks you right up to the edge of that precipice.

But I should note that memory safety without garbage collection is just hard: it requires the entire language design to be balanced on a delicate precipice.

We stand on the precipice of a revolution in liquid-sipping robot technology; our children will scarcely believe the languid speed of their parents' liquid-sipping robots.

"While I do not deny the unsavory side of Stallman exists, I am intrigued at how smoothly we've moved from his detractors mocking his "The Right to Read" [1], to his detractors ignoring it, to us standing on the precipice of living in it, even as the mockery continues unabated and even the HN zeitgeist seems to be that he's some sort of whacko who should be ignored... some sort of whacko who, I might add, appears to have been a great deal more correct about the future than the people labeling him such.