How to Use critical mass in a Sentence

critical mass

noun

• This is one of the remaining barriers to crypto and spot ETFs achieving critical mass.
  — Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• The next year, 2016, the weekend away reached a critical mass of fame.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 30 June 2017
• 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
• In the past year, that criticism has reached critical mass.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Then the team reached a brutal portion of its schedule, and injuries soon reached a critical mass.
  — Josh Robbins, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Hurst says — but only once a critical mass of people have seen or felt the effects of shootings first-hand.
  — Jonathan Tamari, Philly.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• Whether all of this has reached a critical mass that will affect his re-election prospects is an open question.
  — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2020
• When a critical mass of guests have arrived, slice the eggs in half, arrange them on a platter, and season with salt and pepper.
  — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit, 24 May 2018
• Such pressures have reached critical mass throughout the country in the months since the pandemic hit.
  — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2020
• As cable reached critical mass in the late 1980s, there were fears that consumers would have to have a pay TV subscription to see the Super Bowl.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• If and when that harebrained practice hits critical mass, stand back.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
• 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

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024