How to Use tipping point in a Sentence

tipping point

noun
  • But for some, the threats and backlash were the tipping point.
    Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2021
  • The tipping point for the U.S. mortgage space was [Covid-19].
    Nina Trentmann, WSJ, 20 May 2021
  • That, my friend, that was the first tipping point — put it that way.
    Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The tipping point came at the start of her senior year in fall 2016.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2021
  • White said Courts' death should serve as the tipping point.
    Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2022
  • But the world is now already two-thirds of the way to breaching the tipping point.
    Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The survey found that 5.5% mortgage rates seem to be the tipping point.
    Anna Bahney, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Providers say the staffing crisis has hit a tipping point.
    Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 9 May 2022
  • The three ended up as the tipping point in this series.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2022
  • The events of the past year have created a tipping point in the fight for racial justice.
    Kyle Zimmer, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The ice sheets have not yet passed that runaway tipping point.
    Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Off the North Slope, this tipping point will be reached sooner.
    Lois Parshley, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2022
  • Maybe halfway through the evening, the telecast was at a tipping point: The first 90 minutes of the show were a mixed bag.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2022
  • But when the tipping point arrived in early 1999, the Navy didn't know what hit it.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • In business, there is no such thing as a tipping point.
    Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2021
  • But her cousin reached her tipping point about halfway through the 6-week-long camp.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2022
  • The crisis in Niger could reach a tipping point this weekend.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Brando notes that not all of the Amazon may reach that tipping point.
    Matt Simon, Wired, 7 Mar. 2022
  • All of that reached a tipping point two years ago when protests that began in the south of Iraq spread to Baghdad.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2021
  • But the transition comes at what may be a tipping point for the island.
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2021
  • But regions will reach a tipping point, and some areas may be close to that.
    Carolyn Y. Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2021
  • That was the tipping point, Jones said, for the decision to move to remote learning through the end of this week.
    al, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Trump’s effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election was a tipping point for many of them.
    USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The timing couldn’t be better, as EVs seemed to have hit a tipping point over the last couple years.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2022
  • That appears to have been a tipping point for Ornelas II.
    Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 24 June 2021
  • So the latest -- the latest research is that there's not a turning point or a tipping point or a knee in the curve.
    ABC News, 23 June 2024
  • That was likely the tipping point for Marc Trestman, but he wasn’t fired until the end of the season.
    Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • But in one way, all this anxiety could pay off: For some, the Delta variant is the tipping point.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
  • For a position front offices have spent the better part of the past decade moving their chips away from, is this potentially a tipping point?
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Scientists had previously projected that coral reefs would cross a tipping point at 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming, whereby up to 90% of reefs would be lost.
    Reuters, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024

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