The phrase "at a pivot point" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase when referring to a point or moment in time when the course of something changes, or when one thing is balanced on another. For example, "The team's season turned around at a pivot point when their star forward returned from injury."
The world has arrived at a pivot point in history.
"As the war in Iraq winds down and America begins to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan, the United States stands at a pivot point," Mrs. Clinton wrote in the article.
I argued in my recent post What's Next for Podcasting? that we're at a pivot point where podcasting is becoming a mainstream content format for all types of shows and creators as Hollywood enters the fray.
The country is at a pivot point.
At a pivot point, you do, indeed, stop moving forward.
Officials and experts in both Mexico and the US describe a country at a pivot point.
We simulated this motion by rotating the LNS5+EGF3 segment outward by 18°, using the Pro1085 at the EGF3-LNS6 junction as a pivot point (Fig. 6B).
By analyzing high-speed videos, researchers at Northern Arizona University discovered that, instead, the amphibian uses a rear leg as a pivot point, planting it forward.
Having the connection point at the midway point of the neck linker sequence (positions 333 and 328; see Figure 6A and B) allows the detached head to undergo free diffusion with the connect position acting as a pivot point.
The surreal wonder of American culture at such a pivot point permeates Mark Harris's "Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood," which focuses on the nominees for the Academy Award for best picture of 1967: "Bonnie and Clyde," "The Graduate," "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," "In the Heat of the Night" (the eventual winner) and "Doctor Dolittle".
Mr. Bush's single term, from 1989 to 1993, proved a pivot point at home and abroad.
