as in make-or-break
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But instead of canceling the series after a regrettable first season, the network surprised everybody by completely retooling the show and bringing it back for a make-or-break season 2.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
5 July 2025 -
Tax credit awards are highly competitive, with multiple firms competing for a limited pool of funds, meaning the make-or-break financing source is anything but certain.—
Jennifer Van Grove,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 June 2025
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Lowery remembered about shooting a climactic scene.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
7 July 2025
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Trump said the climactic celebrations, on July 4th, 2026, will include a festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.—
Jackie Northam,
NPR,
4 July 2025
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And many emergency management experts and state disaster response officials say that FEMA plays a crucial role that state governments cannot fill.—
Rebecca Hersher,
NPR,
9 July 2025
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These crucial prohibitions, the EU-3 believed, would block Iranian nuclear-weapons ambitions while affording Tehran the benefit of civil uses of atomic energy for electrical power, medical research, and the like.—
John R. Bolton,
The Atlantic,
9 July 2025
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Born into the cult, Prophet draws comparisons between the group’s apocalyptic dogma (braced for a Soviet nuclear strike, the church built extensive Montana bomb shelters in the early 1990s), and Christian Nationalism, QAnon and the MAGA movement.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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This seemingly apocalyptic scenario wasn’t confined to Antarctica.—
Discover Magazine,
Discover Magazine,
27 June 2025
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For this reader, roughly the same age as Sam Raymond, there is uncommon pleasure in the paradoxes of this climacteric tale.—
Claire Messud,
Harper's Magazine,
22 June 2021
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Macerating unripe climacteric fruit in sugar, however, isn’t a substitute for ripening them; that just takes time in your kitchen counter’s fruit basket.—
Bill St. John,
The Denver Post,
8 May 2017
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“Go-no-go.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/go-no-go. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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