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> おかげで僕は、辛うじてこいつらへの不信感を **誤魔化せるギリギリに留まっていられた** 。

In English, would we use a comma here? I heard somewhere that Japanese doesn't
use commas in those situations. I feel like the same scenario would be:

世に囁かれる星の数にも届くそれらは、一種の願望である。- I think there should be a comma between 囁かれる and
星. As in "those who are rumored by the world, those who even reach to the
number of stares are kind of a wish"

Is this the same scenario? as in like:

> Thanks to it, I was able to evade the distrust to them, (and) was able to
> stop it with effort.

I am also thinking, why not to add te form in there? like as in

> おかげで僕は、辛うじてこいつらへの不信感を誤魔化せ **て** ギリギリに留まっていられた。

Am I understanding it right? I feel like my translation apart from being
really literal, it is really goofy as well.
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grammar meaning verbs interpretation
what does it mean when there is Verb+Adverb+Verb
There is no strict rule for putting commas. In this case, the predicate part
is long enough and it is reasonable to place a comma (for a pause) after 僕は.

As for the question, ギリギリに is not an adverb here, rather simply a noun ギリギリ +
に meaning _at the limit_. So the sentence means _Thanks to it, I was barely
able to stay at the limit where I could distract the doubts towards them_. (It
is ambiguous what 辛うじて modifies.)
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ギリギリ here is used as a noun for ギリギリな／のところ, and it is modified by the clause
こいつらへの不信感を誤魔化せる (or 辛うじて〜誤魔化せる if you interpret 辛うじて as modifying 誤魔化せる,
instead of 留まっていられた.)

I wouldn’t put a comma there.
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