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limit that when exceeded, or anaction that when taken, cannot bereversed .
Etymologies
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The original form of the game, piquet au cent, is now obsolete, having been displaced in the late nineteenth century by the present game, technically known as rubicon piquet.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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The original form of the game, piquet au cent, is now obsolete, having been displaced in the late nineteenth century by the present game, technically known as rubicon piquet.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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The original form of the game, piquet au cent, is now obsolete, having been displaced in the late nineteenth century by the present game, technically known as rubicon piquet.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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In his answer he describes the “constitutional rubicon” as
The Volokh Conspiracy » Colorado Attorney General Explains the Obamacare Lawsuit 2010
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Wherever you stand on the Premier League's role in the endtimes, though, you have to concede Mark's emergence as a spokesmodel crosses a rubicon for sporting officialdom.
Mark Clattenburg: The bald truth about the referee's hair-loss deal | Marina Hyde 2011
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Did he personally start out as the rest of mortal mankind, and cross some intellectual rubicon?
Political Beliefs and Self-Deception, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The premise of the precapitalist paradigm of expression holds that consciousness is part of the rubicon of art.
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The premise of the precapitalist paradigm of expression holds that consciousness is part of the rubicon of art.
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It looks like the FCC hasn't crossed the rubicon (hasn't yet broken this Obama promise) but it looks like it's being considered.
Marvin Ammori: Comcast Can Censor This Blog Post ... With FCC's Permission? 2010
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Potok says the Southern Poverty Law Center didn't take action against CNN until last summer, when Dobbs "crossed the rubicon" with statements that President Obama was not a U.S. citizen.
stephanieconn commented on the word rubicon
Further examples
Fiona Apple's song, "Better Version of me" (Extraordinary Machine, 2005)begins with the line, "The nickel dropped when I was on my way beyond the Rubicon."
Aimee Mann's song "High on Sunday 51" (Lost in Space, 2002) contains the line, "We have crossed that Rubicon/ The ship awash our rudder gone..."
June 10, 2009
sarra commented on the word rubicon
before I learnt its metaphorical meaning, this is what 'rubicon' meant to me, and nothing more:
March 1, 2010
thtownse commented on the word rubicon
I don't know what the deal is, but in Bloomington Indiana, wherein I doth make my humble abode, the term "Rubicon" is suddenly all over the place - there are businesses, an office park, a recurrent event - I think there is also a Jeep called this. I can only assume this is a fad word and I make it a point to automatically reject fads.
December 7, 2010
thtownse commented on the word rubicon
I do notice that a Wordnik denizen has chosen "rubicon" as a user identity, so I apologize if any offense is taken.
December 7, 2010