come to a head
Example Sentences
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The tension with staff and longtime Fed insiders has come to a head since she took over the supervision division.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
Failure to come to a financial agreement though could quickly alert other suitors, with the situation expected to come to a head in the next few days.
From BBC • Jul. 17, 2025
Things began to come to a head with “Don’t Worry Baby,” Wilson’s thinly veiled rewrite of The Ronettes’ “Be My Baby,” which he considered to be pop’s finest moment.
From Salon • Jun. 12, 2025
Eventually, though, this will all come to a head.
From Slate • Feb. 25, 2025
In fact, that seemed to have been the entire business which had come to a head when the vigilance committee followed him to Mr Coldfield’s gate that day two months before.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
