How to Use threshold in a Sentence
threshold
noun- If your income rises above a certain threshold, your tax rate also rises.
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And one, two, three: the girls each step across the threshold.
—Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
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On the 23rd, the Sun enters Libra and brings us across the threshold of the equinox.
—Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2023
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Yet even on the threshold of growth, a question lingers.
—David Streitfeld, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2023
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The threshold for the second debate was higher than for the first.
—Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2023
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More than a third of renter households meet that threshold.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
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Last fall, the Supreme Court refused to hear a legal challenge to the 2020 state law that raised the threshold.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2024
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And in 2003, the Angels crossed the three million threshold in attendance for the first time.
—Dan Freedman, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
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Near the threshold of the kitchen, there's also a small breakfast nook to have coffee or eat.
—Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 12 Sep. 2023
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One of the few people who has been allowed to cross that threshold is her fiancé.
—Jenny Singer, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2023
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And unless Congress changes the law before then, the $600 threshold is set to kick in the following year.
—Scott Horsley, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
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But while one bond had 54% of voter support, both elections failed to reach the two-thirds threshold.
—Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 9 Jan. 2024
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Jung, it could be argued, has the ability to cross all three thresholds.
—Evan Grant, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2023
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The income threshold has long been a sticking point between the two parties.
—Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
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This threshold was met and passed well before the Arizona Supreme Court ruling.
—The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2024
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This is just below the 95% threshold recommended by the WHO.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
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That threshold is expected to be reached by the early 2030s, if not sooner.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
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The $950 threshold would be eliminated for a third offense so the repeat thief could be charged with a felony.
—George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
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There is a kind of threshold between not living and living at the beginning of life and at the end of life, and law does not belong there.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
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Don’t forget to raise the pre-hung exterior door so the bottom of the metal threshold is at the same level as the top of the finished floor.
—Tim Carter, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
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Forty-nine senators backed the measure and 51 were against, falling short of the 60-vote threshold needed to advance.
—Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023
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At the threshold of the frame, people had left coca leaves and plastic cups of red wine as offerings to Incan gods.
—Gabriel Urza, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
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Instead, the term is measured by the quantity of ice in the water below a certain threshold.
—Simrin Singh, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
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The Christie campaign says the former New Jersey governor hit the donor threshold to make the stage—and is polling above 6% in two national polls.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2023
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This process continues and the sequence of increasing thresholds is called the Markov spectrum.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
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For a short period, the world recently passed that threshold.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2024
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Binance has passed $1 trillion in monthly volume twice and last month crossed the 50% threshold of total volume for the first time.
—Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
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Recent testing shows water quality in the Seine can still fail to meet the safety threshold on some days.
—Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 26 July 2024
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If Harris falls below the 30% threshold, Baucom could request a runoff.
—Kendrick Marshall, Charlotte Observer, 7 Mar. 2024
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That a challenger will meet that threshold to contest Harris' nomination is unlikely at this point.
—Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 24 July 2024
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