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
Tipping the scales back and forth, Russell blurs the line between fan and celebrity entirely, upping the mutual desperation to an unpredictable boiling point.
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Eric Torres, Pitchfork, 27 Aug. 2025
There was a ton of tension between Butler and the Heat, and that came to a boiling point on multiple occasions throughout last season.
—Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
During this process, the propellants will need to be kept well below their boiling points.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
Those redistricting efforts hit a boiling point this week, when Democrats in Texas fled the state in an attempt to prevent a vote on the new map.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2025
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Eric Torres, Pitchfork, 27 Aug. 2025
There was a ton of tension between Butler and the Heat, and that came to a boiling point on multiple occasions throughout last season.
—Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
During this process, the propellants will need to be kept well below their boiling points.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
Those redistricting efforts hit a boiling point this week, when Democrats in Texas fled the state in an attempt to prevent a vote on the new map.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boiling point
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Is this a particularly bad week, filled with normal crises at an abnormal pace, or is there some sort of grand conspiracy connecting each bizarre emergency?—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
24 Sep. 2025
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In the late 1830s, as a devastating financial crisis bankrupted antislavery societies across the North, the movement seemed splintered and powerless to keep up its petition pressure campaign.—
Time,
Time,
24 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Advertisement Season 3 was the series’ most volatile yet, with every storyline pulled taut to the breaking point.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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That line of questioning pushed the woman past her breaking point.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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Cooke’s granddaughter, Nicole Cooke-Johnson, saw the project as both deeply personal and part of her ongoing work as the head of his estate.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
24 Sep. 2025
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Intuition guided many of my decisions, often informed by clear references in my head from my own family history.—
Caterina De Biasio,
Vogue,
24 Sep. 2025
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Sports is a flash point in the NBCU-YouTube talks, which are preceding a major carriage renewal with Disney ahead of a late-October deadline.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
25 Sep. 2025
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Rhetoric about Taiwan, the most prominent flash point for Chinese sovereignty, is an example of the historical origins of the issue.—
David C. Kang,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Boiling point.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boiling%20point. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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