tipping point
noun
: the critical point in a situation, process, or system beyond which a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place
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Being alive at the slop tipping point doesn’t feel like an emergency, exactly, but more like slowly giving over to a pervasive disorientation.
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Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
Now, at least one region’s rainforests have reached a tipping point.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
And this decision has the potential to be the tipping point where the court declares unconstitutional or heavily restricts the ability for Congress to create remedies that promote multiracial democracy.
—NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
That pressure may trigger a tipping point with mass tree die-offs.
—Alexandra A Phillips, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
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Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
Now, at least one region’s rainforests have reached a tipping point.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
And this decision has the potential to be the tipping point where the court declares unconstitutional or heavily restricts the ability for Congress to create remedies that promote multiracial democracy.
—NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
That pressure may trigger a tipping point with mass tree die-offs.
—Alexandra A Phillips, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for tipping point
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“Tipping point.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tipping%20point. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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