Synonyms for point of no return
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1. point of no returnnoun

   Synonyms:
   threshold, rubicon

2. point of no returnnoun

   The point in an aircraft's flight when there is insufficient fuel to reverse direction and return to the place of origin.

   Synonyms:
   rubicon, threshold

3. point of no returnnoun

   The point in any journey, process, or sequence of events when it is no longer possible to reverse course or stop the process.

   Synonyms:
   threshold, rubicon

Princeton's WordNet

1. Rubicon, point of no returnnoun

   a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment

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1. Anders Levermann:

   We have already awoken the giant at the southern pole, we are already at a point of no return if we don't do anything.

2. National Assembly:

   This ruling marks a point of no return for this dictatorship, it is no longer just a question of annulling everything that the National Assembly does, but of usurping all its powers, allowing them to approve new sentencing laws that give more power to the dictator to continue hurting the people.

3. Justin Kolbeck:

   If we continue on this trajectory, by 2030, we might pass a point of no return for a lot of these fish species, i have a couple of small kids and I don't want to hand off a world that is less biodiverse and less rich than the one that we inherited -- especially when we have tools at our disposal to do something about it.

4. Marina Ovsyannikova:

   I have been feeling a cognitive dissonance, more and more, between my beliefs and what we say on air, the war was the point of no return, when it was simply impossible to stay silent.

5. Chris Krebs:

   We have a President-Elect in Joe Biden and we have to move forward, we have to get past this. The damage that's been done to the American confidence in the election -- I hope we're not at a point of no return, but we're going to have a lot of work to restore confidence.