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
Domestic tensions could reach a boiling point today.
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Usa Today, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Tensions reached a boiling point this January, when Laurence des Cars, the Louvre's president-director, sent a letter to France's culture minister outlining issues of concern - which was leaked to the press.
—NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
But the bad days have been plentiful, and the boiling point was predictable.
—Noah White, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
Tensions between Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren and the Navajo Nation Council are reaching a boiling point after Nygren appointed an interim Controller — twice — to replace the one who resigned.
—Arlyssa D. Becenti, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025
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Usa Today, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Tensions reached a boiling point this January, when Laurence des Cars, the Louvre's president-director, sent a letter to France's culture minister outlining issues of concern - which was leaked to the press.
—NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
But the bad days have been plentiful, and the boiling point was predictable.
—Noah White, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
Tensions between Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren and the Navajo Nation Council are reaching a boiling point after Nygren appointed an interim Controller — twice — to replace the one who resigned.
—Arlyssa D. Becenti, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for boiling point
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boiling point
Noun
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In effect, farmers in rural America have warned of an impending economic crisis from the compounding factors of losing their top export market, falling crop prices and high costs.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
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Which is to say, this isn’t the story of a greedy, materialistic man who suffers a crisis of conscience while trying to pry a priceless treasure away from an uneducated hick who doesn’t know any better.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Losing to Pitt at home was the breaking point — though, frankly, the Panthers look like a new team since inserting Mason Heintschel at quarterback.—
Ralph D. Russo,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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Companies that prepare ahead of time will be rewarded; those that don’t risk being forced to change only once the crisis gets to a breaking point.—
Justin Worland,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
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His body was found with four shots to the back and head in November 1990 in Dixie County.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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That was also Payton’s first season as an NFL head coach in New Orleans.—
Nick Kosmider,
New York Times,
30 Oct. 2025
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Nonetheless, migration has become a flash point.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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Arrests are taking place all over the Chicago area, but some of the biggest flash points have occurred on the South and West Sides, which are home to many of the city’s largest Black and Latino communities.—
Geraldo Cadava,
New Yorker,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Boiling point.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boiling%20point. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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