as in make-or-break
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for go-no-go
Adjective
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When her family receives a make-or-break order for 200 dresses at their sewing factory, she is put to work.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
29 May 2025 -
After back-to-back disappointing seasons for the Chicago Cubs, this year felt like the make-or-break season.—
Andrew Wright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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As such, supplemental Federal assistance is crucial.—
Neal Earley,
Arkansas Online,
23 May 2025
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There's one more crucial step on Wi-Fi 7's quest to increase data rates: The new protocol will provide more channel bandwidth than ever before.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
22 May 2025
Adjective
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He and other firefighters returning from distress calls described an apocalyptic level of destruction.—
Jennifer Berry Hawes,
ProPublica,
19 May 2025
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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
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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
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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 3 Jun. 2025.
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