as in crisis
a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action
when the situation reached the boiling point, the President had no choice but to order out the National Guard
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Recent Examples of boiling point
Tensions reached a boiling point earlier this year, when the Pentagon cut ties with the AI firm after the company requested certain assurances over how the government and military can use AI.
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Miranda Nazzaro, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2026
Even engineering heavyweights and frontier labs are losing ground as users are demanding more than hyperscalers are prepared to deliver—a tension that’s reached a boiling point as teams like OpenAI race to ship both breakthrough capabilities and unprecedented uncertainty at the same time.
—Sumeet Vaidya, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
With your savvy planetary ruler, Mercury, meeting both Saturn and Mars in your 11th house of community, tensions among friends, collaborators or within a larger community could reach a boiling point.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
Raising the boiling point of the electrolytes could open the door to true all-climate applications, making the technology viable across a wider range of environments.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 29 Mar. 2026
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Miranda Nazzaro, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2026
Even engineering heavyweights and frontier labs are losing ground as users are demanding more than hyperscalers are prepared to deliver—a tension that’s reached a boiling point as teams like OpenAI race to ship both breakthrough capabilities and unprecedented uncertainty at the same time.
—Sumeet Vaidya, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
With your savvy planetary ruler, Mercury, meeting both Saturn and Mars in your 11th house of community, tensions among friends, collaborators or within a larger community could reach a boiling point.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
Raising the boiling point of the electrolytes could open the door to true all-climate applications, making the technology viable across a wider range of environments.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 29 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for boiling point
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boiling point
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But the War on Terror persisted and mutated into nightmares in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then Syria, which unleashed that darkness in the form of terrorist states and a refugee crisis that spread anti-Muslim and anti-migrant hatred to Europe, the United States, and beyond.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
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As Hal witnesses crisis and inequality firsthand, the line between observing and acting begins to blur.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 2026
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The Kansas City Royals might have reached their breaking point against the Yankees in New York on Saturday.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
18 Apr. 2026
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The tension between engineering and finance reached a breaking point with the 737 MAX as the company tried to compete with Airbus.—
John Pacenti,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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The reason, an official with knowledge of the meeting plans said, is because King Charles is a head of state, rather than a head of government.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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Matt Small, who is in his first season as Lincoln-Way Central’s head coach, was an assistant at Homewood-Flossmoor.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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For the past 13 years, Maricopa County in Arizona has attempted to reform its sheriff’s department after Joe Arpaio made it into a national flash point for extreme immigration tactics.—
Jonathan van Harmelen,
The Conversation,
20 Apr. 2026
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The killing has become a flash point in a wider crackdown across the Persian Gulf.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC news,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Boiling point.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boiling%20point. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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