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point of no return



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At the microscopic level, the bridge allows information to pass across what appears to us as an event horizon – a point of no return.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Roberto de Zerbi had called on Tottenham Hotspur to silence the voices inside the club as this traumatic, turbulent season reached the point of no return.

From BBC • May 3, 2026

The Yale report suggests that maybe it isn’t past the point of no return.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

Speaking of which, as I write this, we are drifting toward what feels like a point of no return.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

He also knew that injecting the seawater was their only hope of keeping the chain reaction in unit 1 from reaching a point of no return, and that every minute counted.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland




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