breaking point

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Recent Examples of breaking point By the end of season 2, Jackie's heart and the brothers' relationship hit a breaking point. EW.com, 29 Aug. 2025 With talks getting nowhere, Parsons' growing frustrations reached their breaking point during training camp. Kevin McCormick, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025 What makes this crisis particularly maddening is that much of the demand driving infrastructure to breaking point shouldn't exist. Tomás O’Leary, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025 Next to the Comet, the de Haviland museum displays a section of fuselage that was tested to breaking point. Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for breaking point
Recent Examples of Synonyms for breaking point
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Has this finally reached a boiling point?
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
  • His administration’s relationship with the media has reached a boiling point.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Breaking point.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breaking%20point. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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