Synonyms for point of no return
point of no re·turn

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1. point of no returnnoun

   Synonyms:
   threshold, rubicon

2. point of no returnnoun

   The point in an aircraft's flight when there is insufficient fuel to reverse direction and return to the place of origin.

   Synonyms:
   rubicon, threshold

3. point of no returnnoun

   The point in any journey, process, or sequence of events when it is no longer possible to reverse course or stop the process.

   Synonyms:
   threshold, rubicon

Princeton's WordNet

1. Rubicon, point of no returnnoun

   a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment

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1. Roger Noriega:

   He has dug in to a point of no return in terms of normal relations between Venezuela and the rest of the world.

2. Vassily Nebenzia:

   The immediate priority is to avert the danger of war, we hope there will be no point of no return.

3. Marina Ovsyannikova:

   I have been feeling a cognitive dissonance, more and more, between my beliefs and what we say on air, the war was the point of no return, when it was simply impossible to stay silent.

4. Dag Hammarskjld:

   There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

5. Tom Oliver:

   In terms of a potential tipping point where the loss of insects causes whole ecosystems to collapse, the honest answer is we just don't know when the point of no return is, we know that you can't just keep losing species without, ultimately, causing a catastrophic outcome.