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• n  border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug)
• v  advance slowly, as if by inches
• v  provide with a border or edge
• v  lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
• v  provide with an edge

• If we look at searches for the two American Idol finalists going into the show's finale on Wednesday, beatboxer Blake Lewis, 25, is edging out 17-year-old Jordin Sparks by just 25.
• After edging up in May, sales dropped again in June below the 10 millionunit annual sales pace, which puts new vehicle sales at the slowest pace since the recession in 1958 .
• And like many things that start below the Establishment's radar, it has caught the eye of the mainstream and is edging into the galleries.

• edge
• inch
• border
• adjoin
• abut
• march
• butt
• butt against
• butt on

News & Articles

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• Stocks edge lower as investors wait for the Fed
  Stocks are edging lower in early trading on Wall Street as investors hold back ahead of a policy announcement from the Federal Reserve. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 17 points, or 0.1 percent, ...
  June 19, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! Finance
• Get the Edge on Summer Landscaping - 20% Off Lawn Edging with English Woodlands
  For a professional appearance that won’t break the bank, English Woodlands are offering 20% off Aluminium Lawn Edging up until the 31st of July. (PRWeb June 18, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/englishwoodlands/offlawnedging/prweb10844328.htm
  June 19, 2013 - PRWeb
• Stocks inch lower in early trading on Wall Street as investors wait for word from the Fed
  NEW YORK — Stocks are edging lower in early trading on Wall Street as investors hold back ahead of a policy announcement from the Federal Reserve. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 17 points, or 0.1 percent, at 15,301 in the first few minutes of trading Wednesday.
  June 19, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Forbes
  Cost is the number one reason that 47 million Americans do not have health insurance and thousands more are edging toward bankruptcy every day,Obama told a town hall-style meeting of about 350 people at a Council Bluffs high school. "That...
• Brett Holman in The Age
  The younger boys like me, and Carl Valeri, and everyone who's edging closer, we're all itching for more game time,Holman said. "It would be great to be involved. It's such a big game, I'm raring to go."
• Jeffrey Lacker in ForexTV.com
  During the recovery period ahead we may face an increasing risk of inflation edging upward, which has sometimes occurred during past recoveries,he said. "While that risk appears to be minimal at this point, we will have to be careful as...