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
But this past year saw a particularly notable surge in anti-AI sentiment, which now seems to have finally reached a boiling point in the Comic Con community.
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Frank Landymore, Futurism, 22 Jan. 2026
The Beckham family feud has reached a boiling point.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Jan. 2026
The pair appeared to have a complicated relationship at the Bernabeu, which reached boiling point when Vinicius threw a tantum after a 72nd minute substitution in El Clasico.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
The situation hit its boiling point when nearly 500 Cubans disembarked in the Dry Tortugas National Park, a group of remote islands about 70 miles west of Key West, over the December 2022 New Year’s weekend.
—Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for boiling point
Frank Landymore, Futurism, 22 Jan. 2026
The Beckham family feud has reached a boiling point.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Jan. 2026
The pair appeared to have a complicated relationship at the Bernabeu, which reached boiling point when Vinicius threw a tantum after a 72nd minute substitution in El Clasico.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
The situation hit its boiling point when nearly 500 Cubans disembarked in the Dry Tortugas National Park, a group of remote islands about 70 miles west of Key West, over the December 2022 New Year’s weekend.
—Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boiling point
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On Tuesday, the US Embassy in Havana urged American citizens in Cuba to take precautions amid the energy crisis by conserving fuel, water, food and charging their phones.—
Bianna Golodryga,
CNN Money,
5 Feb. 2026
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Nigeria is in the grip of a complex security crisis, with an insurgency by Islamic militants in the northeast alongside a surge in kidnappings for ransom by gunmen across the northwest and north-central regions over recent months.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 Feb. 2026
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Windows is at breaking point, and Microsoft knows it.—
Tom Warren,
The Verge,
29 Jan. 2026
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Harbaugh, in 18 years, won a Super Bowl, and the Ravens were perennially in the playoff picture, but his inability to beat a Steelers’ squad in a game in which his tight end dropped a two-point conversion, and his rookie kicker missed the game-winning field goal, was the breaking point.—
Gladys Louise Tyler,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Chinese companies have excelled at rapid deployment in consumer-facing applications and integrating AI into industrial use, said Deepika Giri, head of AI research at market research firm IDC.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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At one point, the individual appears to tilt their head away from a doorbell camera, hold a flashlight in their mouth and attempt to cover the lens with a gloved hand and what looked like part of a plant pulled from the yard.—
Bradford Betz , Matt Finn,
FOXNews.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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The incident became a flash point in ongoing debates over whether immigration officials had gone too far in detaining a young boy.—
Alicia Victoria Lozano,
NBC news,
6 Feb. 2026
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Minneapolis has become a flash point for clashes between federal immigration enforcement agents and agitators, particularly after the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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