to the point of
idiom
: to a particular state
The animals were hunted to the point of extinction.
He pushed her to the point of hysterics.
He's concerned about money to the point of obsession.
Examples of to the point of in a Sentence
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About Bakar Fellows The Bakar Fellows Program at UC Berkeley supports faculty with proof-of-concept funding for projects that are more advanced than basic research, but not yet to the point of commercialization, to mature and translate their ground-breaking discoveries and innovations.
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Kansas City Star, 21 May 2024
And the barbarians at the gates of New Rome, rabbled-roused to the point of maximum rabidness.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024
And less than half have even got to the point of a test project using AI or proof of concept.
—John Kell, Fortune, 15 May 2024
Trending on Billboard Some of those legacy AI utilities felt promising but imperfect, others inelegant to the point of unusability.
—Michael Gallant, Billboard, 15 May 2024
A lot is made of David Duchovny’s character being method, but James Yoon is the one who chooses to stay on the torture rack through the lunch break and pushes himself to the point of vomiting.
—Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 May 2024
But the show also has a particular British zest for going all-in dramatically, to the point of being cruelly, knowingly funny.
—Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
Stefanik has also been a vocal critic of Trump's criminal cases, to the point of filing a legal complaint against special counsel Jack Smith.
—David Jackson, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
Getting to the point of exchanging vows had not been easy.
—Frank Litsky, New York Times, 1 May 2024
Kansas City Star, 21 May 2024
And the barbarians at the gates of New Rome, rabbled-roused to the point of maximum rabidness.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024
And less than half have even got to the point of a test project using AI or proof of concept.
—John Kell, Fortune, 15 May 2024
Trending on Billboard Some of those legacy AI utilities felt promising but imperfect, others inelegant to the point of unusability.
—Michael Gallant, Billboard, 15 May 2024
A lot is made of David Duchovny’s character being method, but James Yoon is the one who chooses to stay on the torture rack through the lunch break and pushes himself to the point of vomiting.
—Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 May 2024
But the show also has a particular British zest for going all-in dramatically, to the point of being cruelly, knowingly funny.
—Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
Stefanik has also been a vocal critic of Trump's criminal cases, to the point of filing a legal complaint against special counsel Jack Smith.
—David Jackson, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
Getting to the point of exchanging vows had not been easy.
—Frank Litsky, New York Times, 1 May 2024
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