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An example use of brink in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… and it's it's on the brink of it's on …”
The brink is the edge of a cliff or steep slope.
the word brink occurs in english on average 3.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that brink can be often used in the following areas:
1) communication, information, and media;