Thesaurus results for BREAKING POINT

breaking point

noun

as in crisis

a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action tensions between the two nations had risen to the breaking point

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Recent Examples of breaking point According to several high-level sources in the production, Lin had hit his breaking point over the steadily increasing creative tensions with Diesel, as well as difficulties with the star’s sister/producer, Samantha Vincent, who often acted as Diesel’s emissary. —

Brian Welk, IndieWire, 24 Nov. 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

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In moments of crisis—when communities are grieving, divided, or searching for ways to care for one another—nonprofits stand on the front lines, holding our social fabric together through connection, healing, and support.

— Cat Ward, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Kim all but disappeared from public view, until the president declared martial law late one Tuesday night in December 2023, launching the nation – and the couple – into a far bigger crisis.

— Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 28 Jan. 2026