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breaking point

noun as in extreme tension

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"I think, from what he's told me, he just reached breaking point with it," she said.

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The SNA, always stretched thin, has been pushed to breaking point, say analysts.

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“What the study of history tells you is that we’ve always been divided,” Burns explained, allowing that every time we’ve arrived at a breaking point, it feels new.

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Stokes was superb in the series against India in the home summer, only to push himself to breaking point.

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At first, Colombia absorbed the bulk of the migrants, but eight million Venezuelans were on the move, and Colombia stretched its resources to the breaking point to care for three million of them.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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