tipping point
noun
: the critical point in a situation, process, or system beyond which a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place
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Resigning over this incident after surviving so many previous hurdles suggests the situation among senior officials at the BBC was at tipping point.
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Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
The Mavericks’ loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday was a tipping point.
—Christian Clark, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
Health researchers say these new, more complicated types of deals, creating a more complex interplay between insurers and medical providers, have made that tipping point much harder to define.
—Elisabeth Rosenthal, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2025
Drought and wildfire exacerbated by climate change add to the toll that deforestation has taken in the Amazon, and the entire forest basin could be nearing a tipping point that makes its loss unstoppable.
—Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
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Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
The Mavericks’ loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday was a tipping point.
—Christian Clark, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
Health researchers say these new, more complicated types of deals, creating a more complex interplay between insurers and medical providers, have made that tipping point much harder to define.
—Elisabeth Rosenthal, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2025
Drought and wildfire exacerbated by climate change add to the toll that deforestation has taken in the Amazon, and the entire forest basin could be nearing a tipping point that makes its loss unstoppable.
—Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
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“Tipping point.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tipping%20point. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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