come to a head
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Villarreal: You wrote two episodes in Season 2, and in “8 p.m.” we really see Robby’s mental health journey come to a head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The tension with staff and longtime Fed insiders has come to a head since she took over the supervision division.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
"I don't know obviously these individual allegations but I think this was going to come to a head at some point anyway," he told BBC Newsnight.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2025
Eventually, though, this will all come to a head.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2025
The guests, who had left their tables and chairs to follow Inés and her daughter out to the car, crowded behind the fence, quietly waiting for the night’s drama to come to a head.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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