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as in beginnings
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 thresholds
The Roborock Curv won our praise at last year’s IFA as the first robot vacuum that could lift itself over thresholds.
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PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
Executives should establish concentration thresholds and monitoring systems, setting limits on critical capability percentages residing in single individuals.
—Sabeer Nelliparamban, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
People have different social media thresholds.
—Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2025
That data helps inform cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security, funding for SNAP benefits, tax-bracket thresholds, limits on retirement account contributions and more.
—Calmatters, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
These most extreme rainfall scenarios can inform design thresholds for high-hazard infrastructure, such as dams and nuclear facilities.
—Austyn Gaffney, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2025
Those wealth test thresholds are not pegged to inflation and haven't changed since they were first developed in the 1980s.
—Stephanie Dhue, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
Northern Gaza is already in famine, while central and southern regions—including Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis—are projected to reach famine thresholds by next month.
—Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
That sets limiting thresholds for the general fund, which is the legislature’s primary spending account to pay for state services.
—Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 22 Aug. 2025
PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
Executives should establish concentration thresholds and monitoring systems, setting limits on critical capability percentages residing in single individuals.
—Sabeer Nelliparamban, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
People have different social media thresholds.
—Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2025
That data helps inform cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security, funding for SNAP benefits, tax-bracket thresholds, limits on retirement account contributions and more.
—Calmatters, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
These most extreme rainfall scenarios can inform design thresholds for high-hazard infrastructure, such as dams and nuclear facilities.
—Austyn Gaffney, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2025
Those wealth test thresholds are not pegged to inflation and haven't changed since they were first developed in the 1980s.
—Stephanie Dhue, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
Northern Gaza is already in famine, while central and southern regions—including Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis—are projected to reach famine thresholds by next month.
—Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
That sets limiting thresholds for the general fund, which is the legislature’s primary spending account to pay for state services.
—Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thresholds
Noun
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Enyedi has often made meditative cinema, but here her restraint in some sequences verges on suffocating.—
Leila Latif,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
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The film takes a fun detour in the third act into what almost verges into horror territory.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The beginnings of it are depicted in true disaster movie style, with ominous music and a collapsing electric pylon that causes a faulty cable to fall to the ground.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
6 Sep. 2025
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Here is the emphasis on the hardscrabble beginnings and obstacles to be overcome, here is the recognition of a truly raw but once-in-a-lifetime talent that converts the nonbelivers, here are the early wins and the training montages and the tragedies and the comebacks.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The theme of training camp and the preseason was for the Bengals to avoid the slow starts that plagued them in the past, so starters played in the first two preseason games.—
Jason Hoffman,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
5 Sep. 2025
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Or the skewering and scathing kind from social media, where everyone’s a target by armchair quarterback blowhards, including over four mixed starts at Arizona State in 2023.—
Joe Davidosn,
Sacbee.com,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Rainwater tends to accumulate at the road edges.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Discard the tired-looking center and separate clumps from the outer edges by hand or use a sharp knife or pruning saw.—
Rita Pelczar,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Harden baselines, enforce configuration standards and turn on logging with retention that matches control language.—
Emil Sayegh,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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When play resumed in the third quarter, the clocks at the top of the backboard were back in working condition, and the reserve equipment on the baselines were taken back into storage.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
1 Sep. 2025
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The events team has curated a packed calendar of author talks, book launches and special programs across the Hudson Valley and beyond.—
American Booksellers Association,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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Even with a constant stream of new launches, the brand still wows with no-brainer, fill-a-gap-in-your-routine staples that stand the test of time.—
Lily Wohlner,
Allure,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Thresholds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thresholds. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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