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cusp

A cusp is a pointed end. A point on a tooth is a cusp. The cusp on his back tooth had broken. The point on a crescent is a cusp. They could see the cusp of the moon. When two curved lines meet, they create a cusp. A cusp is a point from which everything changes. The scientist was at the cusp of a great discovery.

cusp

point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch) small elevation on the grinding surface of a tooth a thin triangular flap of a heart valve

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We are right on the cusp of being able to say life exists somewhere else.
I'm Leo, and Myrtle's on the cusp.
Now, a new drug. on the cusp of approval by the Food and Drug Administration. is poised to change these old methods forever.
We're on the cusp of another civil war.
Capricorn on the cusp of Aquarius.
Yeah. On the cusp. the cusp of a new. a new age.
You do appear right on the cusp of something.
Brother, we're on the cusp of the American dream.
Annie reaches the cusp of womanhood he can't take it anymore, he snaps.
Well, i told you it was on the cusp.
There is no cusp.
Well, it's on the cusp.
I think that, uh. ( whispers ): for you especially, right now, this is a real, like. this is a cusp moment.
I'm Leo and Myrtle's on the cusp.
We find ourselves on the cusp of a new age.
Today we'll be talking with Calvin Dregg a master guitarist on the cusp of major stardom until he suffered a career-ending injury at the hands of Superman.
Her dress walks the cusp of fashion.
Our territory sits poised just on the cusp of statehood.
These marks show a double cusp pattern.
And now he is on the cusp.
That means that we are on the cusp of monsoon season.
As my dear mother always used to say, born under the sign of Patus, middle cusp she was, if you can help anybody, like preventing them from being eaten by a monster, then do so.
Nothing of the galaxies, stars, planets life forms, civilizations evolved in the previous incarnation of the universe trickles through the cusp flitters past the big bang to be known in our universe.
Well, maybe you caught her on the cusp of a new wash cycle.
Well, he was always on the cusp.
Her dress walks the cusp of fashion. Two seasons ago.
Pacey and I are on the cusp of figuring out our whole thing. If he knew that Chris was the love of my young life it would just get confusing.
These girls are right on the cusp of their womaninity.
Don't you feel that we're on the cusp of something and we Just need to leap into the void?
A young boy on the cusp of manhood.

News and current affairs

The predicament for Europe's leaders at this week's summit is that they stand at the cusp of an unstable process of European integration.
The fact is, the BP oil spill is on the cusp of becoming a political game-changer of historic proportions.
Wilhelm II became the leader of a country on the cusp of European mastery.
This lack of trust has brought the eurozone to the cusp of implosion, and is calling into question the very future of European unity.
SAN JOSE - Europe is on the cusp of an unprecedented technological transformation.
Among senior aides to Republican challenger Mitt Romney, a belief developed that he was on the cusp of victory.
Indeed, the US is on the cusp of energy self-sufficiency.
Education - one of the last big economic sectors yet to be transformed by the digital age - is on the cusp of a revolution.
No one should underestimate how difficult it was to travel his road, against incredible odds, to the cusp of the presidency.
For many years at the cusp of the new century, India's richest man (the information-technology czar Azim Premji) was a Muslim.
While reading the economic tea leaves is always risky, there are signs that we are at the cusp of a transition to a new regime in which the rules of the game will not be nearly as accommodating for export-led strategies.
An Iran on the cusp of becoming a nuclear-armed state confronting a nuclear-armed Israel bringing its bomb out of the basement.

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