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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Recent Examples of boiling point
The spring that James fell into was more than 200 degrees, close to the boiling point.
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Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 27 May 2025
The spring is one of the park’s hottest thermal features, with temperatures over the boiling point, according to Yellowstone’s website.
—Brooke Baitinger, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2025
Pham was born in Vietnam in 1967 as the war reached a boiling point, and his family repeatedly tried to flee the country.
—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2025
When Homa tossed that club on Sunday, the mini fit of rage made for a kitschy little video clip of a player reaching a boiling point.
—Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 21 May 2025
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Let this list, which mostly eschews household names, be an antidote to that crisis, surveying 2025’s most notable releases thus far across pop, rock, electronic, rap, and Latin music.—
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Northwest and West metros essentially owned the top of the housing crisis list.—
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Georgia was really brought to her breaking point this season, compared to the first two seasons.—
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Enterprise customer service is at a breaking point.—
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Now, Maineri heads into year 12 with 18 pitchers on his roster, hoping that rising junior Caleb Gilbert and sophomore-to-be Zach Hess will emerge at the top of the pitching rotation.—
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Cal Fire representatives said the current parking mess has already impacted them because the driveway to their station enters the highway not far from the trail head.—
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Well, the Trump administration is at the center of three fast-moving international flash points, first Russia and Ukraine.—
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And one of the biggest flash points in this is this trade standoff with China.—
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“Boiling point.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boiling%20point. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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