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Recent Examples of crossroad Now on the brink of adulthood, Belly finds herself at a crossroads and must decide which brother has her heart. Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025 And the trickster god Elegba, Orisha of the crossroads, stands between them, a wily ex-con buddy of Oshoosi’s — not bad, not good, a Mephistophelean drifter who secretly longs for the fraternal intimacy that is his friend’s by birthright. Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025 Nearly 20 years later, Paul Thomas Anderson may be at the same crossroads. Clayton Davis, Variety, 11 Sep. 2025 The show is serious about the barely exceptional lives of unremarkable American kids, finding profundity by treating these crossroads in life with care and nuance, not as petty problems. Greta Rainbow, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crossroad
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crossroad
Noun
  • Sonic’s newest Sacramento-area restaurant is at 5873 Antelope Road in Citrus Heights, near the intersection with Roseville Road.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Roxbury Prep is just blocks away from the intersection of Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue.
    Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Aid groups say the Israeli military continues to restrict access to food, water, and humanitarian aid, worsening a crisis already marked by starvation and displacement.
    Kaity Kline, NPR, 18 Sep. 2025
  • During the 2008 financial crisis, Biglari seized on shareholder anger and economic uncertainty.
    Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Dell’s Ice Blue aluminum design strikes a modern tone with its soft-rounded corners, slim display bezels, and light gray backlit keyboard.
    Charles Jefferies, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2025
  • After successfully rounding the corner of generating text, the AI makers shifted into a mode of concentrating on code.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The gunmen, who arrived at the junction in a vehicle carrying weapons, ammunition and a knife, shot at dozens of people waiting near buses in the area.
    Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Members of Israel's ZAKA search and rescue emergency services collect samples at the scene of a shooting at the Ramot road junction in east Jerusalem on September 8, 2025.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Crossroad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crossroad. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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