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as in intersection
a place where roads meet
the fast-food chain has a restaurant at practically every crossroads
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as in crisis
a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action
we've come to a crossroads, and we have to make a decision
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Recent Examples of crossroads
Scott was at a career crossroads.
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Mike Kaye
january 8, Charlotte Observer, 8 Jan. 2026
The country’s democratic movement is at a crossroads.
—Michael Albertus, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026
The creation of the crossroads Oak Lawn, spreading over 2,500 acres across Dallas, wasn’t always a neighborhood containing thousands of residents and a popular party spot for clubbers.
—Timia Cobb
breaking News Reporter, Dallas Morning News, 5 Jan. 2026
Robby isn’t the only ER staffer at a crossroads.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Jan. 2026
New owners Greg Penner and Carrie Walton Penner had run the team for only a few months, yet were already at a crossroads.
—Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
California’s capital city is at several transportation crossroads.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 1 Jan. 2026
America is at a crossroads; we have been divided across race, ethnicity, gender and political party for too long.
—Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2026
New York is a crossroads for them at the edge of the continent, like a traffic circle with east-west routes running along the ocean or north-south routes going up the harbor or to New Jersey.
—Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
Mike Kaye
january 8, Charlotte Observer, 8 Jan. 2026
The country’s democratic movement is at a crossroads.
—Michael Albertus, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026
The creation of the crossroads Oak Lawn, spreading over 2,500 acres across Dallas, wasn’t always a neighborhood containing thousands of residents and a popular party spot for clubbers.
—Timia Cobb
breaking News Reporter, Dallas Morning News, 5 Jan. 2026
Robby isn’t the only ER staffer at a crossroads.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Jan. 2026
New owners Greg Penner and Carrie Walton Penner had run the team for only a few months, yet were already at a crossroads.
—Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
California’s capital city is at several transportation crossroads.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 1 Jan. 2026
America is at a crossroads; we have been divided across race, ethnicity, gender and political party for too long.
—Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2026
New York is a crossroads for them at the edge of the continent, like a traffic circle with east-west routes running along the ocean or north-south routes going up the harbor or to New Jersey.
—Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crossroads
Noun
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Pocket park The roughly 2,100-square-foot public space on Soledad Avenue would be next to a 4,494-square-foot single-family house planned for a currently vacant lot just east of the intersection of Soledad and Cowrie Avenue.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
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Police said Workman-Duffy had been crossing in a crosswalk on a green light at the intersection of Longview Road and Food Lane on the morning she was hit.—
Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
7 Nov. 2025
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Over the past decade and a half, millions from the Middle East, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia arrived amid successive crises in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, and beyond.—
Daniel Ross Goodman,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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Of course, 2008 was the start of the subprime mortgage crisis, which led to the Great Recession and housing crash, when the market was flooded with distressed homes, giving buyers all the power.—
Diana Olick,
CNBC,
8 Jan. 2026
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Space-savers will include pull-out vertical pantries that slide into narrow spaces, toe-kick drawers that utilize the area beneath your cabinets and corner carousel units that make those awkward spaces accessible.—
Lew Sichelman,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
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Halfway through the season, things have turned dark — as dark as the empty corners of ExtraMile Arena during Wednesday night’s shocking 72-55 loss to Grand Canyon.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
9 Jan. 2026
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Each junction behaves slightly differently, forming a complex 3D network that is impossible to exactly replicate.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Oct. 2025
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Canal supporters identified the break in the Appalachian Mountains at the junction of the Mohawk River and the Hudson as a propitious place to dig a channel to Lake Erie.—
Christine Keiner,
The Conversation,
15 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Crossroads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crossroads. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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