point of no return

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The point of no return was 1915, when Duchamp, altogether rejecting art’s traditional role as aesthetic creation—metamorphosis—brought that snow shovel and hung it from his studio ceiling as “In Advance of the Broken Arm.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

At the microscopic level, the bridge allows information to pass across what appears to us as an event horizon – a point of no return.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Reaching net zero will be "a big challenge but there needs to be a big focus on it so the planet doesn't get past the point of no return", he added.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

But that strategy has dramatically backfired, propelling the aging franchise closer to the brink of the point of no return.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

But in some unspoken way, he did sense that he was crossing a point of no return, that things were about to get complicated in a way he was unequipped to handle.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore