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the point at which something begins
at the threshold of the new year, it's time to look back and make resolutions for the future
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Recent Examples of threshold
That gain propelled the S&P 500 to close above the 6,600 threshold for the first time ever.
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Alex Harring, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
Reddit shared a schedule for the changes that start on December 1, when users currently moderating five or more subreddits averaging 100,000 visitors or more every 28 days won’t be able to accept new mod invites for subreddits also hitting that threshold.
—Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 16 Sep. 2025
Others think the tougher threshold to make the season means the time is right to expand the playoff field.
—Pierre Lebrun, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
That has left the House split 67-66 with the Republicans at a one-seat advantage for three months — though the Legislature has not been in session, and the House can’t pass any bills without DFL support because the threshold to do so is 68 votes.
—Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2025
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Alex Harring, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
Reddit shared a schedule for the changes that start on December 1, when users currently moderating five or more subreddits averaging 100,000 visitors or more every 28 days won’t be able to accept new mod invites for subreddits also hitting that threshold.
—Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 16 Sep. 2025
Others think the tougher threshold to make the season means the time is right to expand the playoff field.
—Pierre Lebrun, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
That has left the House split 67-66 with the Republicans at a one-seat advantage for three months — though the Legislature has not been in session, and the House can’t pass any bills without DFL support because the threshold to do so is 68 votes.
—Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for threshold
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Enyedi has often made meditative cinema, but here her restraint in some sequences verges on suffocating.—
Leila Latif,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
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During the 2008 Great Financial Crisis, the federal government was compelled to rescue key companies vital to the nation’s economy, such as General Motors, Chrysler, Citigroup, and AIG, from the verge of collapse.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
29 Aug. 2025
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The beginning of the evening was marked by an intimate performance on behalf of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
12 Sep. 2025
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And targeting, torturing, and murdering political opponents, rivals, and critics have marked the conflict since its beginning.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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The strains on international enrollment only add to distress for schools already on the financial brink.—
Collin Binkley,
Fortune,
30 Aug. 2025
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That Maggie had gone to the very brink of extinguishing Negan.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
23 June 2025
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This son of Justify, like his pappy, was unraced at two but has two wins, a second, and a third in five starts this year.—
Danny Brewer,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The Chargers got off to a hot start to the season in year two under Jim Harbaugh by defeating the Chiefs 27-21 in the NFL season opener.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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The attack was widely condemned in the Middle East and beyond as an act that could escalate tensions in a region already on edge.—
Jarrett Renshaw,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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On the other hand, edge computing will gain, too.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Since Nomad’s inception, Bellavance-Lecompte and his cofounder Giorgio Pace, an avant-garde curator, have seen the fair resonate in the fashion world, while drawing chief executive officers from the sector’s biggest conglomerates.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
10 Sep. 2025
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The Rare Impact Fund — which was previously held in 2023 and 2024 — has raised more than $20 million and supported 30 nonprofit partners across five continents since its 2020 inception.—
Katie Atkinson,
Billboard,
10 Sep. 2025
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The ability to shorten the distance between data, decision and execution will define who captures alpha, manages risk dynamically and earns trust with every trade.—
Ashok Reddy,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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In eukaryotes, two versions of the protein, alpha and beta tubulin, snap together.—
Veronique Greenwood,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Sep. 2025
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New York — Two key reports released Thursday showed the US economy may be in a state of early-onset stagflation — a toxic one-two punch of slow economic growth and rising prices.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
11 Sep. 2025
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Whereas Gamow had a scheme that the elements of the periodic table were forged in an early, hot, nucleosynthetic state shortly after the onset of the hot Big Bang, Hoyle claimed, correctly mind you, that the nuclear physics simply wouldn’t work out.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Threshold.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/threshold. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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