Reaching the 'Tipping Point' — VOA Learning English
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Today we talk about an important time in a movement or experience. It is the moment when something cannot be stopped. There is a momentum or force pushing something forward or making it more known or popular.
One term for that kind of moment is tipping point.
The online dictionary Merriam-Webster defines tipping point as “the critical point in a situation, process, or system beyond which a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place.”
The tipping point can also be the time at which a change or an effect cannot be stopped.
For example, some scientists believe Earth may have passed the tipping point in global warming.…
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