as in intersection
a place where roads meet
our hotel in Montreal was adjacent to a noisy carrefour
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Recent Examples of carrefour
Youssouf, who’s been in Spain for 14 years, calls Lepe a carrefour, a crossroads.
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Cynthia Gorney, National Geographic, 25 June 2019
Cynthia Gorney, National Geographic, 25 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carrefour
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The 41-year-old woman was located by police Wednesday night near a column of smoke at the intersection of Churchill Downs Avenue and Santa Anita Drive on Woodland’s north side, the release said.—
Sean Campbell,
Sacbee.com,
12 June 2026
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His stream-of-consciousness posts about the intersection of weather and climate change routinely garner thousands of comments.—
Jason Dove Mark,
The Atlantic,
11 June 2026
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Jack Benjamin, the city’s director of economic development, declined to identify the potential operator of the new park at the corner of Farmington and Girard avenues, saying a lease of the property is still being negotiated.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
11 June 2026
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Five years ago, longevity biotech was often viewed as a speculative corner of the startup world.—
Dasha Shunina,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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At a junction where a dirt road peels off the highway near the mining town of Hitsats, in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, a young man named Filimon Guesh pushed his way to the front of a crowd of protesters.—
Claire Wilmot & Gisa Tunbridge,
The Dial,
12 June 2026
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The dispatch The term Silicon Roundabout, a label for the cluster of tech firms based around the City Road/Old Street junction north of the City of London, was first coined in 2008.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
10 June 2026
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“Carrefour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carrefour. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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