too great
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"The years since my appointment have also been marked by an unrelenting level of public scrutiny and personal attack," he said, adding "there comes a point when the personal cost becomes too great".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
But these days, many on Wall Street and in Washington increasingly wonder if another bear market might pose too great a risk to economic security.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
By February 1985, the divide was too great.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
In other words, human evolution may have reached a point where further improvements to the biological "hardware" supporting language would have come at too great a cost to maternal and infant survival.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026
In the case of Cygnus X-l, this is about six times the mass of the sun, which, according to Chandrasekhar’s result, is too great for the unseen object to be a white dwarf.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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