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on the cusp
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on the cusp (of something)
Fig. at the point in time that marks the beginning of something. The transistor was on the cusp of a new age in electronics.


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Trinity, meanwhile, is said to be on the cusp of signing a number of office deals that will go a long way towards eliminating the remaining portions of vacancy in its large Hudson Square portfolio of buildings.
From the hovels of Berlin during the fall of the wall, to a mystery in the Zapatista Autonomous Zone, to a Croatian Rainbow Gathering following G8 protests in Genoa, to a Kurdish guerilla camp, Clandestines tracks the struggles of a world in flux, on the cusp of transforming into a post-Cold War society.
Taylor chronicles the true story of fishery, the individuals who dedicated themselves to it, and the photojournalist who exquisitely captures it just as it was on the cusp of a radical transformation.
 
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