go-no-go

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for go-no-go
Adjective
  • That could be a make-or-break issue for some Chicago lawmakers.
    Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025
  • Economists have said 50% is the make-or-break threshold for the return of somewhat normal business between the two countries.
    Juliana Liu, CNN Money, 10 May 2025
Adjective
  • Its iconic, climactic mirror maze shootout has since been echoed in countless films (from Enter the Dragon to the climax of John Wick: Chapter 2); in Us, a seaside carnival’s funhouse of mirrors marks the inciting location of horror and revelation.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 21 May 2025
  • The script musters scant interest in Niki’s career ambitions and romantic complications, and her halting conversations with her mother keep chasing a climactic point of mutual understanding that never arrives — a poignant impasse, perhaps, but a difficult one to structure a film around.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • As such, supplemental Federal assistance is crucial.
    Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 23 May 2025
  • Importantly, a dog’s wants and needs do not always align with what their owners expect, and this is a crucial point in regards to animal welfare.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • He and other firefighters returning from distress calls described an apocalyptic level of destruction.
    Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 19 May 2025
  • All the hallmarks of American poverty — bad food, obesity and urban blight — coalesced in an apocalyptic scene of destitution and vagrancy.
    Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • For this reader, roughly the same age as Sam Raymond, there is uncommon pleasure in the paradoxes of this climacteric tale.
    Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • Macerating unripe climacteric fruit in sugar, however, isn’t a substitute for ripening them; that just takes time in your kitchen counter’s fruit basket.
    Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 8 May 2017
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“Go-no-go.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/go-no-go. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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