How to Use to the point in a Sentence
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The level of football around the world has grown to the point where there are very few truly weak teams.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 30 June 2026
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Don't scrub a mesh filter too hard, which can tear or warp it to the point that the filter ends up needing replacing.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
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Meaning, connecting deeply with the audience to the point of a congenial fracture of time and space.
—Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 1 July 2026
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No amount of time-traveling expeditions to reboot or create alternate timelines can save it now, because it's been done to the point of overkill.
—Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 3 July 2026
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Japan’s players, initially reverential to the point of deference in Zico’s presence, came out of their shells.
—Jack Lang, New York Times, 29 June 2026
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Many of these tracks barely touch two minutes, sometimes not even 90 seconds, and with such a profusion of directions, certain ideas feel fleeting to the point of frustration.
—Oba Awolowo, Pitchfork, 3 July 2026
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Despite this effort, symptoms escalated to the point of eight hospitalizations and an ICU stay in four months.
—Shannon Dingey, Health, 1 July 2026
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Roberts said Smith has not been able to accelerate his rehabilitation to the point of doing baseball activities.
—Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
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Even if a court reverses the decision, the patient’s condition may have worsened to the point where the treatment is no longer clinically indicated or as effective.
—Miranda Yaver, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
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This brings us to the point that while the project focused on coffee grounds, the technology can be applied to a wide range of high-moisture organic waste, including food waste, agricultural residues, and even sewage sludge.
—New Atlas, 1 July 2026
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Make Participation Effortless Reduce friction to the point where using it feels like less effort than ignoring it.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
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If the situation has not escalated to the point of danger and someone contacts Animal Control, an officer will be sent out to investigate.
—Eva Flowe july 2, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2026
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The game was beset with performance issues, to the point where even high-end gaming PCs were struggling to achieve decent frame rates and about the only way to make the game playable was to rely on super-powerful cloud gaming rigs.
—Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
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Thanks to that paradigm, over the last decade deep learning networks have improved significantly, to the point where for a lot of applications the code—the neural network architecture—is basically a solved problem.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Feb. 2022
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And his political standing is now suddenly deteriorating to the point where Congress is maybe losing some of its fear, and there may be a different Congress after November.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
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Leonard was born in 1991, the year of the Metal Goat, and one of its characteristics in the Chinese Zodiac is loyalty, to the point of keeping small circles.
—Law Murray, New York Times, 30 June 2026
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Between analytics, automation and collaboration tools, the complexity can be paralyzing to the point of slowing innovation.
—Andrew Kokes, Forbes.com, 25 Feb. 2026
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This story began at one of Swift’s Eras Tour shows in Kansas City in July 2023 and became a journey that captivated (to the point of obsession) media and fans around the world.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2026
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However, the positives have increasingly outweighed the negatives throughout 2026, to the point where, at the time of writing, the game has a 74% positive score for reviews written in the past 30 days (of which there have been 951).
—Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
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For example, former Hollinger International CEO Conrad Black dissolved the boundary between corporate assets and personal playthings to the point that he was indicted for fraud.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 6 July 2026
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