breaking point
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The difficulty is that someone needs to define “cannot”—the moment at which a breaking point has been reached.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
RCN England's executive director Patricia Marquis said the extra money was welcome in the short term but would ultimately provide "just another sticking plaster on a system that is at breaking point".
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
The harder truth, the one I lived next door to for 16 years, is that there was no single breaking point.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
“We’re at this breaking point of not just being underground,” he adds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
But he could not be unaware that Lawrence’s program would once again strain the university’s resources beyond the breaking point.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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