go-no-go

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for go-no-go
Adjective
  • It's seen as a make-or-break season in Milwaukee.
    Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Florida’s performance — in the epitome of a make-or-break game — was representative of everything the program has become.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But this climactic sequence, too, is redolent of too many other films to name, as is a final stretch where the apparent resolution to the sisters’ travails turns out to be something else.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
  • There’s something particularly climactic about this year’s WNBA Finals, coming weeks before the league’s collective bargaining agreement is set to expire and with most players becoming free agents in anticipation of a new leaguewide salary structure.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Bundesliga champions are unbeaten this season, with crucial contributions from Kane (11 goals and three assists in the league).
    Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Officials say there were no survivors inside the facility, depriving investigators of crucial eyewitness accounts of the final moments leading up to the explosion.
    Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • His pre-teen son in tow, Luis joins up with a crusty group of dancers who are heading to a secret party in the heart of the desert, where the beats will be loud enough to drown out the sounds of the apocalyptic war that’s brewing around them.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Season 1 left us with a very apocalyptic arrival and a very clear tease of Gambit serving as this Angel of Death role.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Keeping high-ethylene producers away from climacteric fruits can keep them from ripening too quickly.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 15 July 2025
  • For this reader, roughly the same age as Sam Raymond, there is uncommon pleasure in the paradoxes of this climacteric tale.
    Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
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“Go-no-go.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/go-no-go. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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