saturation point

noun

: the point at which there are so many of a thing that no more can be added successfully
The number of game shows on TV may have reached the saturation point.

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After a decade of rapid growth, the segment has reached a saturation point. Prakhar Khanna, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025 Elliott believes the idea has reached a saturation point. Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Apr. 2025 After a week of taking a loading dose, your muscles reach a creatine saturation point. Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 21 Feb. 2025 For a home, assuming two or three inhabitants all separately browsing or watching, somewhere between 100 Mb/s and 1 Gb/s marks the approximate saturation point beyond which further improvements become less and less noticeable, for most use cases. IEEE Spectrum, 9 Feb. 2025 Like many, sports branding specialist and author Todd Radom thinks that traditional advertising reached its saturation point long ago. Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019 By contrast, the world’s demand for textiles in the 18th century was nowhere near a saturation point. Dylan Matthews, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 Chávez's main problem is that social spending may have reached a saturation point. Javier Corrales, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2012

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“Saturation point.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/saturation%20point. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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