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
With your savvy planetary ruler, Mercury, meeting both Saturn and Mars in your 11th house of community, tensions among friends, collaborators or within a larger community could reach a boiling point.
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Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
Raising the boiling point of the electrolytes could open the door to true all-climate applications, making the technology viable across a wider range of environments.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 29 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, the challenge-less Red Sox could do nothing about several overturn-able pitches, and by the top of the eighth the situation reached a boiling point.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026
Inside these trains, natural gas is purified and cooled to about –260 degrees Fahrenheit (–162 degrees Celsius), below the boiling point of methane.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2026
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Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
Raising the boiling point of the electrolytes could open the door to true all-climate applications, making the technology viable across a wider range of environments.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 29 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, the challenge-less Red Sox could do nothing about several overturn-able pitches, and by the top of the eighth the situation reached a boiling point.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026
Inside these trains, natural gas is purified and cooled to about –260 degrees Fahrenheit (–162 degrees Celsius), below the boiling point of methane.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boiling point
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During the financial crisis in spring 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama dismissed his rivals' calls for a federal gas tax suspension.—
Kathryn Watson,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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The fighting has pushed many people into famine, caused a huge displacement crisis and left over 30 million people in need of humanitarian assistance.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 Apr. 2026
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The Kansas City Royals might have reached their breaking point against the Yankees in New York on Saturday.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
18 Apr. 2026
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The tension between engineering and finance reached a breaking point with the 737 MAX as the company tried to compete with Airbus.—
John Pacenti,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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The woman was found with three gunshot wounds to her chest, while the man was shot in the head, police said.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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Another man, a 35-year-old, showed up at Temple Hospital's Episcopal Campus with a gunshot wound to his head, police said.—
Tom Ignudo,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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The killing has become a flash point in a wider crackdown across the Persian Gulf.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC news,
17 Apr. 2026
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The Salvadoran national’s case has become a flash point in immigration debates after he was mistakenly deported last year and forcibly brought back.—
Travis Loller,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Boiling point.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boiling%20point. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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