How to Use critical mass in a Sentence

critical mass

noun
  • In the past year, that criticism has reached critical mass.
    Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Then the team reached a brutal portion of its schedule, and injuries soon reached a critical mass.
    Josh Robbins, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • If there is a critical mass of cars on the highway moving at a steady rate, even a minor disruption in the flow of traffic can affect cars far behind.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2018
  • With such a critical mass of reasons to release Raif, any claims to the contrary are certainly surmountable.
    Brandon Silver and Evelyne Abitbol, Time, 5 Apr. 2018
  • What's needed is consistent policing, housing for the homeless and a critical mass of activity to bring the area back to life.
    Author: Charles Wohlforth | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Using this data allows brands to become demand experts, knowing when emerging trends will either hit critical mass or begin to wane.
    Vicki M. Young, Sourcing Journal, 25 Sep. 2024
  • But over time, a critical mass of Japanese firms had reached the technological forefront of industry.
    Christine McDaniel, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Such efforts have taken place previously without recruiting a critical mass of fighters.
    Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The American scientists, in contrast, had chosen a different approach to achieve a critical mass.
    Timothy J. Jorgensen, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Neimeyer hopes a critical mass of households at Mertarvik opens up more funds from federal agencies for say, additional roads or utilities.
    Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Base got off to a strong start but still has not achieved a critical mass of users.
    Abubakar Nur Khalil, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • And, at some point soon, those changes will reach a critical mass.
    Rozalynn S. Frazier, Men's Health, 9 Feb. 2022
  • And of course members have no way to know when their group is just short of critical mass.
    David Noonan, Scientific American, 8 June 2018
  • But how was one supposed to build a critical mass of users?
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • The research took about two years to reach critical mass.
    Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 July 2023
  • In terms of what is the right balance between critical mass and too much, this is where Kith is best in the world.
    Tim Newcomb, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • And the list of available things to watch never hit critical mass.
    Brian Barrett, Wired, 31 Dec. 2019
  • To draw people in, of course, Facebook will need a critical mass of users.
    Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The difference, though, is that the lack of critical mass of creatives of color makes the loss of one come at a greater cost.
    New York Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • All agree that the industry has not achieved critical mass and will need more people to catch the fish.
    Peter Kendall, Washington Post, 22 June 2022
  • There is a tipping point – that point when all the bad policies reach critical mass.
    Scott Wilk, Orange County Register, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The tipping point is defined as the moment of critical mass, the threshold, and the boiling point.
    Michael Gale, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The hope, many activists said, is to draw a critical mass of supporters to the region.
    Katie Myers, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2024
  • But ten students — a critical mass — took him up on the offer.
    Cathy Free, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
  • None of that will go away until a critical mass of people opt out of being tracked across the board.
    Gilad Edelman, Wired, 30 July 2021
  • Over the past two years, problems reached a critical mass for farmers.
    Raf Casert, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Still, with roughly a quarter of a million Google workers, AWU has a long way to go to reach a critical mass.
    Zoe Schiffer, The Verge, 5 Jan. 2021
  • When a critical mass is reached, the model breaks and a new one is adopted that can better explain things.
    Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Getting to that critical mass of data is not easy, because not just any DNA will do.
    Cate Brown, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The ultraviolence hits an unsteady critical mass point somewhere around the arrival of the Wolverine clone — and all the gore can feel at odds with the elegiac tone.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 July 2024

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