as in crossroads
the latest possible time
The killer's life was spared at the eleventh hour.
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Creative differences between Levinson and HBO over where to go from this existential crossroads delayed the season even further.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
8 Apr. 2026 -
Surely, every generation faces this devastating crossroads of actual adulthood.—
Annah Feinberg,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2026
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That series ended with a ruptured Achilles for superstar forward Jayson Tatum, and a battering ram taken to the extremities of a Celtics core that had claimed an NBA title just a season prior.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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For people who naturally have cold extremities, keeping them comfortably warm during sleep can also help maintain more stable sleep.—
Lily Hautau,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2026
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Crisis often feels like the natural starting point for a story, and medical emergencies in particular have a way of stripping a person down to the nerve.—
Nina Mesfin,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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As the students rested at lunch tables, one officer described working patrol, responding to calls from minor incidents to emergencies.—
Mona Darwish,
Oc Register,
4 Apr. 2026
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For some, the war in Iran has raised urgent questions about how much attention the US can sustain if multiple crises unfold at once.—
Wayne Chang,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2026
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But after economic crises, Orbán came to power by promising prosperity to the rich and poor, said Gábor Scheiring, a former Hungarian lawmaker now teaching at Georgetown University in Qatar.—
SAM McNEIL,
Arkansas Online,
7 Apr. 2026
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Some version of this happens in all your books—an imagined future opens up new possibilities in the present.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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Joey Muldowney, who was drafted two years ago by the Sharks, forward Jake Richard and defenseman Viking Gustafsson-Nyberg are other possibilities to go pro.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
5 Apr. 2026
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Anderson is here for the melodrama, the special lessons and the climaxes that fall flat.—
Jessica Lipsky,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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The band has never sounded this melodic before; Wroth in particular brings a constant dynamism to his guitar solos, often layering two and reaching climaxes that refuse to collapse into just a flurry of notes, building off Phantom Slaughter’s keyboard melodies with a real sense of drama.—
Sam Goldner,
Pitchfork,
17 Feb. 2026
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NDiaye’s commitment to these situations is unwavering.—
Kristen Roupenian,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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The funding allocated to Baltimore aims to prevent situations like that one.—
Ashley Paul,
CBS News,
6 Apr. 2026
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The intense temperature and pressure of the impact heated the moon's crust and mantle so much that many of the volatile elements present (volatiles are elements with low boiling points), including potassium, evaporated and escaped into space.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Thermodynamics drives selective recovery The researchers hypothesized that FJH combined with chlorine gas could exploit differences in Gibbs free energy and boiling points to selectively remove non-REE elements from magnet waste.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Sep. 2025
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