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perilously

pe ruh luhs lee

  • r  in a dangerous manner

  • A dotcom highflyer that came perilously close to crashing on Wall Street in 2001, Amazon is up once againthanks to Bezos.
  • CHINESE TROOPS LAUNCHING missiles that splash down perilously close to Taiwan and put its armed forces on high alert.
  • For years, small numbers of these bouncy little roadsters had tanks of liquid propane hung perilously behind the rear bumper.
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  • John Bolton in AFP
    It comes perilously close to negotiating with terrorists,Bolton told AFP when asked about Bill Clinton's trip to secure the release of journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee.
  • Lee Hamilton in San Jose Mercury News
    Asked when the US position in Iraq would become "hopeless," Hamilton, a former Democratic congressman from Indiana, replied: "We're perilously close to that point."
  • Richard Branson in Reuters
    The financial state of the world is just about the worst I've ever known it,Branson told The Times newspaper in an interview. "It's getting perilously close to being worse than the 1990s. You have the perfect storm -- you've not only got...

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