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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 thresholds
If there is a potential for temperatures to fall into these thresholds, a freeze watch may be issued a few days ahead of time.
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Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2025
He is accused of providing inside information to co-conspirators about his intentions to leave a game early due to injury, which enabled them to place large bets on him not reaching statistical thresholds.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
In Flacco’s three starts for the Bengals, Chase has had at least 10 receptions and 90 receiving yards in each — since 1970, only Calvin Johnson had a longer streak of reaching those thresholds (4, 2012).
—Brandon Funston, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025
Plans typically include unlimited data (with prioritization thresholds), and its satellites provide dependable coverage even in the most remote areas of the country.
—Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
And there are even questions over thresholds, such as regional value content rules.
—Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2025
If there is a potential for temperatures to fall into these thresholds, a freeze watch may be issued a few days ahead of time.
—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 22 Oct. 2025
So far, the EU’s ecodesign for sustainable products regulation, which will include pro-circularity mandates for certain thresholds of recycled content, the use of digital product passports and a ban on destroying unsold consumer goods, has been allowed to continue apace largely unscathed.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 22 Oct. 2025
But the most recent study published Tuesday in the British Journal of Sports Medicine investigated the effects of different step thresholds.
—Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2025
He is accused of providing inside information to co-conspirators about his intentions to leave a game early due to injury, which enabled them to place large bets on him not reaching statistical thresholds.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
In Flacco’s three starts for the Bengals, Chase has had at least 10 receptions and 90 receiving yards in each — since 1970, only Calvin Johnson had a longer streak of reaching those thresholds (4, 2012).
—Brandon Funston, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025
Plans typically include unlimited data (with prioritization thresholds), and its satellites provide dependable coverage even in the most remote areas of the country.
—Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
And there are even questions over thresholds, such as regional value content rules.
—Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2025
If there is a potential for temperatures to fall into these thresholds, a freeze watch may be issued a few days ahead of time.
—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 22 Oct. 2025
So far, the EU’s ecodesign for sustainable products regulation, which will include pro-circularity mandates for certain thresholds of recycled content, the use of digital product passports and a ban on destroying unsold consumer goods, has been allowed to continue apace largely unscathed.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 22 Oct. 2025
But the most recent study published Tuesday in the British Journal of Sports Medicine investigated the effects of different step thresholds.
—Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thresholds
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The lineup of dishes and sauces and combos verges on overwhelming; they’re presented in a mix of typefaces and colors, and punctuated by herky-jerky photo animations—a waving hand holding a soft-serve twist, spidery fingers with brass nail extensions used in the traditional Thai dance Fawn Leb.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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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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Esther isn’t using their beginnings as a weapon, but as a lesson.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
24 Oct. 2025
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During the interview, the singer discussed success and her career beginnings and shared that her dream was to become a movie director.—
Karla Rodriguez,
Footwear News,
22 Oct. 2025
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The pandemic brought many of us to similar brinks.—
Eric Olson
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
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Beto and Thierno Barry have scored one league goal between them and neither has made a compelling case for regular starts.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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Flowers had at least seven catches in three of Jackson's four starts this year.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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Using a silhouette reminiscent of the iconic 1920s Converse Chuck Taylor All-Star, the Maison Margiela Loved to Death sneakers dial up the distressing with visible seams, raw edges and distressed rubber soles, but that’s only the beginning.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
30 Oct. 2025
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Rainwater tends to gather along the road edges.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Oct. 2025
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Future experiments, including the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) in the US and Japan’s Hyper-Kamiokande, are expected to build on this foundation and offer even longer baselines and more powerful detectors to trace how neutrinos shift flavors across greater distances.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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Metabolic tests can be helpful baselines to assess your risk of developing all sorts of conditions, including heart disease.—
Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
17 Oct. 2025
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Biannual launches have become the norm for the Shenzhou program, which has in the past year reached new milestones with the deployment of Chinese astronauts born in the 1990s, a world-record spacewalk, and plans to train and send the first foreign astronaut, from Pakistan, to Tiangong next year.—
Reuters,
CNN Money,
1 Nov. 2025
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SpaceX’s Starship rocket 38 launches during the 11th test flight on October 13, 2025 as seen from South Padre Island in Texas.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Thresholds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thresholds. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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