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[thresh-ohld, thresh-hohld] / ˈθrɛʃ oʊld, ˈθrɛʃ hoʊld /


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On Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said Helm's post was "assessed by specialist officers and it was determined that it did not meet the criminal threshold".

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Rather than behaving unpredictably, these delayed eruptions may be governed by a common physical threshold.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

UniCredit said it had received the authorization from the ECB to "cross the 30% equity participation threshold in Commerzbank AG... and to increase its stake further without upper limits".

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

A market correction is generally defined as a decline of at least 10% from a peak, while a drop of at least 20% marks the threshold for a bear market.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

We crossed the threshold, and just like before, the whistling began.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

The same thresholds apply to heads of household and qualifying surviving spouses.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

To determine whether these changes were large enough to matter to patients, the researchers applied established thresholds for clinically meaningful improvement.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

In Boston, the percentage of 10th-graders who met or exceeded state thresholds on the 2026 standardized test declined 6 percentage points in English and science and three points in math, year over year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Previous guidelines did not lay out specific thresholds for income, pension or language skills.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Doors whose thresholds no one crossed, whose keys had been destroyed or lost, or locked away themselves for safety’s sake.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss


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