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the point at which something begins
at the threshold of the new year, it's time to look back and make resolutions for the future
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Recent Examples of threshold
Any provision that MacDonough rules out of order with the Senate's rules will have to be stripped or else the legislation will be subject to the 60-vote threshold in the Senate.
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Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 26 June 2025
After a one-month grace period, exceeding that threshold incurs a surcharge of $10 for each extra 50GB, up to $100 a month.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 26 June 2025
Spain, as of 2024, did not meet the current 2 percent threshold each alliance member is, on paper, supposed to reach.
—Ellie Cook — Reporting From The Hague, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
This avoids the usual 60-vote threshold needed to overcome a filibuster.
—Linda J. Bilmes, The Conversation, 25 June 2025
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Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 26 June 2025
After a one-month grace period, exceeding that threshold incurs a surcharge of $10 for each extra 50GB, up to $100 a month.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 26 June 2025
Spain, as of 2024, did not meet the current 2 percent threshold each alliance member is, on paper, supposed to reach.
—Ellie Cook — Reporting From The Hague, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
This avoids the usual 60-vote threshold needed to overcome a filibuster.
—Linda J. Bilmes, The Conversation, 25 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for threshold
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There are aspects of Freddy’s character — a victim of the foster system with a variety of unspecified social difficulties — that feel right on the verge of several stereotypes.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
26 June 2025
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However, multiple experts have stated that Iran was not on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon, according to previous reporting from McClatchy News.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
23 June 2025
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After missing four games due to a concussion and an illness at the beginning of June, Bueckers has been on a tear.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
23 June 2025
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Bulls will point to yesterday’s event as just the beginning of an exciting path of growth.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
23 June 2025
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In its penultimate episode, Paradise pushed us to think about what humanity will succumb to if the climate crisis we’ve been so warned about hits its brink.—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
refinery29.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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Arresting climate change and the loss of species that will result is a critical step away from that brink, but one that policymakers and the public are embracing only slowly.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
4 Mar. 2025
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Shohei Ohtani pitched one hitless inning in his second mound start of the season before hitting a three-run triple and a two-run homer, and Max Muncy had a grand slam and a three-run homer in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 13-7 victory over the Washington Nationals on Sunday.—
Greg Beacham,
Chicago Tribune,
23 June 2025
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Shohei Ohtani, who will make his second pitching start of the season Sunday afternoon, went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts.—
Benjamin Royer,
Los Angeles Times,
22 June 2025
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Like Squid Game, The Prisoner beguiles the viewer by turning traditional symbols of familiar, homegrown calm (in this case, an idyllic seaside town) into disorientating weapons that keep the characters on a knife's edge.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
27 June 2025
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Cook, undisturbed, until pancake edges are dry and bubbles begin to form on surface, about 3 minutes.—
Elizabeth Nelson,
Southern Living,
27 June 2025
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Since its inception, in 2000, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which works with local governments to bring vaccines to low-income countries, has helped administer 1.9 billion vaccines and reached a billion children.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
27 June 2025
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Ross has been a foundational voice for AEW since its inception.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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The journey is a perilous and illuminating one, as Jamie and Isla encounter hordes of infected, as well as an alpha, a hulking and seemingly intelligent evolution of the infected.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
23 June 2025
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Whether this alpha prototype leads to genuine commercial deployment or joins the long list of impressive robotics demonstrations that failed to find market applications will determine not just Humanoid's fate, but potentially the trajectory of the entire humanoid robotics sector.—
Josipa Majic Predin,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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In the five years prior to the onset of the pandemic, the overall crime rate sat between 8 and 9.5 acts per 1,000 students.—
Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
18 June 2025
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Since then, city leaders added hundreds of new employees and, since the onset of the COVID pandemic, relied on one-time funding to balance the books.—
Daniel Borenstein,
Mercury News,
17 June 2025
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“Threshold.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/threshold. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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