draw the line

Example Sentences

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Decisions about where to draw the line determine when an algorithmic suspicion becomes a real-world police action, even though the public rarely sees or debates how those thresholds are set.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

The company has struggled to implement the policy consistently because of differing views on where to draw the line on users’ privacy, people familiar with the matter said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

"This study shows that there's a speciation 'gray zone' that can make it hard to draw the line," Chan said.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

“It’s hard not to be inspired by what people have done before you, but you also have to draw the line somewhere,” Finn says.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

As Arnauld recognized, the question of where to draw the line between facts that were too strange to be credible and facts that were strange but stubborn was far from straightforward.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton