as in make-or-break
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for go-no-go
Adjective
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These businesses need banking relationships that will support them during their make-or-break years.—
Brock Blake,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025 -
Read the full Leo Daily Horoscope Virgo (August 23 - September 22) A make-or-break moment may be occurring in a primary relationship.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Just a short walk from the soundstage where the cast was filming that climactic scene is a workshop containing some of Reed's inventions.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Our goal this episode was ending certain stories in climactic ways, yet building a platform for the show to leap off.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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With a constant wave of new competition flooding shelves—and social media—understanding your consumers' needs and habits has never been more crucial.—
Alexandra York,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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All of these activities, at home and abroad, have shaped health policy in crucial ways that in turn protect people’s health.—
Casey Luc,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Power asserts itself mercilessly, and the action is shot through with apocalyptic premonitions, which reminds him of our time.—
Jeffrey Arlo Brown,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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The apocalyptic tale pits our hero Ellie not against the zombies that served as the frequent antagonists in the first game, but other people bent on destroying her and her surrogate father Joel.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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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 29 Apr. 2025.
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