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knife edge en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of knife-edge.
“Thank you, Flannery,” Anne said, her low voice a knife edge between sincerity and sarcasm, “for saving my life."
2002, Sylvia Brownrigg, Pages for You, →ISBN:While I'd never been to Pakistan, I'd seen plenty of towns like this one just across the border in Afghanistan, perched on a knife edge between life and death, settlements where the people had nothing in their lives except for war, a few goats and a lot of religion.
2007, David A. Rollins, A Knife Edge, →ISBN:I'm on a knife edge, Lydia, don't you see?
2016, Liz Nugent, Lying In Wait, →ISBN, page 82:
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