come to the point
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"I'm still not out of the woods yet and it might come to the point where I won't have any representation and I don't know what I'll do," she said.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025
“I think it’s come to the point where the science community recognizes that a fairly significant degree of climate disruption and damage and suffering is pretty inevitable.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
“The genetics has now finally come to the point where we can do this on a broad scale and get the kind of resolution and information that we didn’t have,” Morin said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
"People were coming up with very exotic solutions to these puzzles, and now we've come to the point where we can resolve all of them," Kara says.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024
The first part betrayed nervousness—it did not come to the point, but conveyed an invitation to participate in a meeting on proteins to which he had decided to add a section on nucleic acids.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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