conjunctures

plural of conjuncture

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Noun
  • Amazon's cloud arm, Amazon Web Services, suffered an outage that took down sites such as Reddit and Snapchat, plunging millions, including yours truly, into existential crises.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In generic financial crises, that often appear quite suddenly, many individuals, businesses or governments cannot meet their financial obligations, whether payments of interest or principal on loans or simply paying for goods purchased or even wages due.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Celine Song’s sophomore feature follows Dakota Johnson as a New York City matchmaker named Lucy, who finds herself at a romantic crossroads.
    Abigail Lee, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In 1981, Bruce Springsteen found himself at a crossroads.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Conjunctures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conjunctures. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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