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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
During a period of intense change across fashion and footwear, many women leaders are at a crossroads.
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Katie Abel, Footwear News, 4 May 2026
And those numbers, combined with Spoelstra’s love/hate relationship with the Adebayo/Ware tandem and his appreciation for undersized lineups, has created difficult questions that must be sorted out during a crossroads offseason for the Heat.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 4 May 2026
By November 2024, with eight months to go until her wedding, Courtney found herself at a crossroads.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 2 May 2026
Consider the other teams that, like the Mets, have high expectations and have swiftly reached a crossroads.
—Tim Britton, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
Rabat is a cultural crossroads where books help transmit knowledge and the arts in all their diversity.
—Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026
Recently, the nation of Hungary – standing at a democratic crossroads – met the moment, with record numbers of citizens turning out to elect a new leader, Péter Magyar.
—Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
Now the organization is at a crossroads after the DOJ hit it with a raft of criminal charges on April 21.
—Josh Meyer, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026
That brings the Spurs to an interesting crossroads come Sunday.
—Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Apr. 2026
Katie Abel, Footwear News, 4 May 2026
And those numbers, combined with Spoelstra’s love/hate relationship with the Adebayo/Ware tandem and his appreciation for undersized lineups, has created difficult questions that must be sorted out during a crossroads offseason for the Heat.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 4 May 2026
By November 2024, with eight months to go until her wedding, Courtney found herself at a crossroads.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 2 May 2026
Consider the other teams that, like the Mets, have high expectations and have swiftly reached a crossroads.
—Tim Britton, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
Rabat is a cultural crossroads where books help transmit knowledge and the arts in all their diversity.
—Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026
Recently, the nation of Hungary – standing at a democratic crossroads – met the moment, with record numbers of citizens turning out to elect a new leader, Péter Magyar.
—Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
Now the organization is at a crossroads after the DOJ hit it with a raft of criminal charges on April 21.
—Josh Meyer, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026
That brings the Spurs to an interesting crossroads come Sunday.
—Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crossroads
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Images included in the court filing appear to show the suspect moving through the intersection as people scatter, then raising the weapon and firing.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
7 May 2026
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My work lives at the intersection of fashion, art, and cultural identity.—
CNT Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 May 2026
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In the meantime, the energy crisis continues, threatening summer holidays in Asia and Europe as the loss of jet fuel supplies from the Middle East ripples across those regions.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
7 May 2026
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But beneath the joy and abandon, the AIDS crisis casts an ever-deepening shadow.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
6 May 2026
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Even from my extremely suboptimal vantage point in the very front corner of the theater, I was awed by the depth and crispness of the 3D imagery.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
7 May 2026
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Instead of distributing the same braking pressure across all four wheels, the software continuously adjusts force at every corner of the vehicle.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
7 May 2026
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The 13-year-old from Long Island, New York, had been born with ureterovesical junction obstruction, a rare congenital disease, where a blockage between the ureter and bladder causes urine to back up into the kidney.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
25 Apr. 2026
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Lewis and King were coworkers at Taco Casa, a fast food restaurant near the junction of Interstate 30 and East Loop 820 in Fort Worth.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Crossroads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crossroads. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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