How to Use critical mass in a Sentence

critical mass

noun
  • Base got off to a strong start but still has not achieved a critical mass of users.
    Abubakar Nur Khalil, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • And, at some point soon, those changes will reach a critical mass.
    Rozalynn S. Frazier, Men's Health, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The research took about two years to reach critical mass.
    Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 July 2023
  • In terms of what is the right balance between critical mass and too much, this is where Kith is best in the world.
    Tim Newcomb, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • To draw people in, of course, Facebook will need a critical mass of users.
    Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The difference, though, is that the lack of critical mass of creatives of color makes the loss of one come at a greater cost.
    New York Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • All agree that the industry has not achieved critical mass and will need more people to catch the fish.
    Peter Kendall, Washington Post, 22 June 2022
  • There is a tipping point – that point when all the bad policies reach critical mass.
    Scott Wilk, Orange County Register, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The tipping point is defined as the moment of critical mass, the threshold, and the boiling point.
    Michael Gale, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The hope, many activists said, is to draw a critical mass of supporters to the region.
    Katie Myers, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2024
  • But ten students — a critical mass — took him up on the offer.
    Cathy Free, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
  • None of that will go away until a critical mass of people opt out of being tracked across the board.
    Gilad Edelman, Wired, 30 July 2021
  • Over the past two years, problems reached a critical mass for farmers.
    Raf Casert, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
  • When a critical mass is reached, the model breaks and a new one is adopted that can better explain things.
    Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Getting to that critical mass of data is not easy, because not just any DNA will do.
    Cate Brown, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • As cable reached critical mass in the late 1980s, there were fears that consumers would have to have a pay TV subscription to see the Super Bowl.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • But the details of what is a considered a critical mass of people out are unclear.
    Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
  • But the greatest risk, as in all bubbles, is that a critical mass of investors finally wakes up.
    Alain Sherter, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2022
  • That dispute points to the race to see whether the Russian invaders or the Ukrainian defenders obtain a critical mass of weapons first.
    Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The support card process, which began more than a month ago, has not yet reached critical mass among employees.
    Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 10 Sep. 2021
  • There’s not enough people for critical mass for the neighborhoods.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But if the cost of that comfort is prohibitive, the platform will never get to critical mass.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2022
  • But Sawyer thinks that over time, small changes accumulate and achieve critical mass.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Everybody else is trying to play some version of a game to get past the gatekeepers into like, the greater critical mass sphere of things.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 13 Aug. 2022
  • That’s even though a critical mass of reviewers hasn’t really weighed in yet.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 9 May 2022
  • SailGP aims to break through and create an enduring league with a critical mass of loyal fans.
    Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Achieving that critical mass has been mainly Pospisil’s job.
    New York Times, 29 June 2021
  • Once a critical mass of the country — and the world — gained immunity from the shots, the coronavirus would struggle to find new hosts, and the global outbreak would sputter and die.
    Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021
  • That merger of groups and causes has reached a critical mass, its supporters say, in a way that differs from past episodes in the long-running Mideast conflict.
    Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021
  • Galleries have been moving to TriBeCa for a good five years, but the migration has finally hit critical mass.
    New York Times, 28 Oct. 2021

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