on edge

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: anxious, nervous

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Hundreds of Department of Homeland Security letters arriving in the mail, however, have put the community on edge. — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026 Rebecca seems nervous, on edge, unsure how to communicate with him. — Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026 An upscale Lake Tahoe enclave is on edge after a years-long spate of tree poisonings at a residents-only beach. — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2026 Anthropic may also hope this could help its frontier models get some extra competitive edge as software developers and other users begin exploring running cheaper, smaller, or open-weight models on their own hardware or on edge devices. — Samuel Axon, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for on edge

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