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 situation reached a boiling point in June 2025 when Lowe asked Urman whether the writers’ room would observe Juneteenth.
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Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2026
Speaking about the tumultuous relationship on a 2024 episode of SiriusXM's This Life of Mine with James Corden, Miller reflected on the boiling point between the scandalous affair and the chaos of the paparazzi and tabloids hounding them.
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Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 June 2026
Of all the elements on the periodic table, tungsten, first isolated in 1783, has the highest melting point (6,192 degrees Fahrenheit) and boiling point (10,706 degrees F, about the temperature of the sun’s surface).
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Ari Sen,
Scientific American,
13 June 2026
While the water is technically heated to near-boiling temperatures to brew coffee and tea, that’s not always enough to guarantee safety, especially when altitude changes the boiling point.
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Alesandra Dubin,
Southern Living,
7 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for boiling point
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2026
Speaking about the tumultuous relationship on a 2024 episode of SiriusXM's This Life of Mine with James Corden, Miller reflected on the boiling point between the scandalous affair and the chaos of the paparazzi and tabloids hounding them.
—
Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 June 2026
Of all the elements on the periodic table, tungsten, first isolated in 1783, has the highest melting point (6,192 degrees Fahrenheit) and boiling point (10,706 degrees F, about the temperature of the sun’s surface).
—
Ari Sen,
Scientific American,
13 June 2026
While the water is technically heated to near-boiling temperatures to brew coffee and tea, that’s not always enough to guarantee safety, especially when altitude changes the boiling point.
—
Alesandra Dubin,
Southern Living,
7 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for boiling point
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boiling point
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Andrea Davis, president and CEO of The Resiliency Initiative, has spent 25 years planning emergency response and crisis management for organizations including Disney, Walmart, the FIFA World Cup and Times Square's New Year's Eve celebration.
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Psychological trauma is also emerging as a major secondary crisis.
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Keep in mind, there is a breaking point.
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Three of the Netherlands’ four goals came from this method, as Gakpo, Dumfries and Summerville stretched the Swedish defence to breaking point and opened up additional space in the middle.
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Use the ax head of a garden mattock to cut through the roots at the base of the stump.
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The debate usually comes to a head in the summer, when high inland temperatures send bigger crowds to the beach, sometimes straining the mood of residents who live there.
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Shakespeare’s haughty Roman war hero, revered on the battlefield yet reviled by hungry plebeians, becomes the flash point in a young democracy tearing itself apart over power and sacrifice.
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The protests became a flash point, sparking similar incidents in several other cities in Tennessee and at least one in Florida.
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“Boiling point.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boiling%20point. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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