{
  "id": "the-moment-has-passed.threshold",
  "term": "the moment has passed",
  "sense": "threshold",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "temporal_windows",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A parameter has drifted past a wall where a thing could begin, and no work can return it to that side.",
  "folk_gloss": "It was possible before, but now it is too late.",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "drift.aimless",
      "wall.range-end"
    ],
    "interaction": "time.dimension",
    "novel_properties": [
      "window-of-opportunity.threshold"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Opportunity rover's solar panels lost enough efficiency by 2018 that a dust storm ended its operations permanently.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "After the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland’s banks exceeded the threshold where domestic depositors could recover full value.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The last known speaker of Ayapaneco, a Mexican indigenous language, died in 2016, ending natural transmission.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "the moment has passed"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.7,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — windows opening and closing"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-moment-has-passed.threshold"
}