How to Use the Rubicon in a Sentence

the Rubicon

noun
  • Sports gambling has always been the Rubicon.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2026
  • Why did Julius Caesar cross the Rubicon?
    — Errol Morris, Air Mail, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Jacob Elordi, but everything about him has crossed the Rubicon into taste slop and chic slop.
    — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 9 June 2026
  • The year 1774 brought Jefferson across the Rubicon, too.
    — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • Advertisement Despite all that, Israel still crossed the Rubicon of bombing Qatar.
    — Monica Marks, Time, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Its top-secret drone unit, the Rubicon Center for Advanced Unmanned Technologies, has been seen by many as a game-changer on the front lines.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Just as no one today would drive the Rubicon Trail in a Ferrari Roma, no one went about enduring the Oregon Trail in a coupe carriage.
    — Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Red Rock Gladiator Jeep often puts the names of towns and geographical features on the hoods of some trim levels of its cars, like the Moab or the Rubicon.
    — Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • However, revoking media licenses over such objections would cross the Rubicon into censorship.
    — James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Deitz moved to El Dorado County with his wife in the late 1990s after visiting the Rubicon Trail, according to his website.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026
  • The advent of Rubicon – full name the Rubicon Center for Advanced Unmanned Technologies – is a prime example of how the Russian military has learnt to shrug off its rigid way of warfare during the Ukraine conflict and adapt to a rapidly evolving battlefield.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The American media landscape has officially crossed the Rubicon, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence’s annual Economics of Basic Cable report from its Kagan research unit.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2025

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