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. Cynthia Gorney, National Geographic, 25 June 2019
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Noun
  • Here’s my Saturday column on the intersection of bad luck and bad decisions for the Dolphins, and how Miami must hope that’s not the case in four key areas.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Resident upset by upcoming intersection closure Mooresville resident Richard Beck criticized the closure in an email to The Charlotte Observer and local and state elected officials.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 6 Sep. 2025
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  • In addition, Instagram has improved a few other corners to make better use of the larger display.
    Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
  • One of those bets was £115 but it was heard the same person had placed almost £1,000 on the corners market of a fixture not involving Paqueta just two days earlier.
    Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • Surprisingly, cognitive decline in healthy aging isn't as simple as neurons dying, but rather neurons losing their spark at the synapse, the tiny junctions where signals leap from cell to cell.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Afghanistan is frequently hit by earthquakes, especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range, which lies near the junction formed by the former Tethys Ocean and now squeezed together between the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates.
    David Bressan, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025

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“Carrefour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carrefour. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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