as in crisis
a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action
when the situation reached the boiling point, the President had no choice but to order out the National Guard
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The tale of a local option fee on high-dollar property sales is likely far from over as debate over housing policy starts to reach a boiling point on Beacon Hill.
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Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 21 Dec. 2024
The murder has been a boiling point in Americans' anger over the health care industry, as many have cited their own negative experiences in dealing with insurance claims.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 15 Dec. 2024
The level of outward emotional expression here is simply kept at a level true to figures who may inwardly be reaching their boiling point, but are still held back by self-respect and polite manners.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 12 Dec. 2024
At the center of the trend were rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar, whose longtime feud reached a boiling point this year.
—Angela Yang, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2024
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Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 21 Dec. 2024
The murder has been a boiling point in Americans' anger over the health care industry, as many have cited their own negative experiences in dealing with insurance claims.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 15 Dec. 2024
The level of outward emotional expression here is simply kept at a level true to figures who may inwardly be reaching their boiling point, but are still held back by self-respect and polite manners.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 12 Dec. 2024
At the center of the trend were rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar, whose longtime feud reached a boiling point this year.
—Angela Yang, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2024
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Across the last two decades, America has been experiencing a notable maternal health crisis.Cynthia McEwen, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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Accusations that the military’s leadership was negligent and that its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs had eroded its fighting capability and caused a recruitment crisis became standard Republican rhetoric.Ronald R. Krebs, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
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The match couldn’t have been more off from nearly the onset, and a possible breaking point was reached after weeks of unravelling when Skinner was held out of the lineup for Sunday’s 5-3 road loss to the Anaheim Ducks.Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
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Here, however, there’s a distinctly feminist twist, with Demi Moore’s Elisabeth Sparkle pushed to her breaking point by an entertainment industry eager to discard women over 50.Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
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There's always one shot that leaves a golfer shaking his or her head.Mike Hutton, Post-Tribune, 19 July 2017
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Delimitros said one of the truck’s side view mirrors struck her in the head, causing minor injuries.David Hernandez, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 July 2017
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What had been an inconvenience in one direction is now a blockage for both, a potential flash point.Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2025
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This fall, the event became an unexpected flash point in L.A.’s debate over gentrification as long-simmering neighborhood tensions exploded and a vocal group of residents ultimately pushed the ultra-popular flea market out of town.Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
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