to the point of
idiom
: to a particular state
The animals were hunted to the point of extinction.
He pushed her to the point of hysterics.
He's concerned about money to the point of obsession.
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That same year, however, U.S. troops in Syria and neighboring Iraq increasingly clashed with local militias aligned with Iran, escalating to the point of Trump ordering the killing of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force chief Major General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad in 2020.
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Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
This negates any savings to the city from police vacancies and works officers to the point of burnout and exhaustion.
—Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
Other celebrities who have previously ridden Blue Origin to the point of weightlessness, include:
Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post who started Blue Origin in 2000.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2025
Also on Friday, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned that the U.S. economy may have already weakened to the point of growth coming in negative.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2025
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Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
This negates any savings to the city from police vacancies and works officers to the point of burnout and exhaustion.
—Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
Other celebrities who have previously ridden Blue Origin to the point of weightlessness, include:
Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post who started Blue Origin in 2000.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2025
Also on Friday, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned that the U.S. economy may have already weakened to the point of growth coming in negative.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2025
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“To the point of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20the%20point%20of. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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