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as in intersection
a place where two or more things are united
situated at the junction of several major railways, the city has long been a transportation hub
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as in merging
the act or an instance of joining two or more things into one
the junction of the coalition's two military forces has not been without problems
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as in corner
a place where roads meet
the town finally installed a traffic light at that busy junction
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Recent Examples of junction
Taiwan is prone to earthquakes and is near the junction of two tectonic plates.
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Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 27 Dec. 2025
Mountains and forests rush by outside, broken up by junctions, barriers and bridges, the quality of light shifts along with the seasons.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 17 Dec. 2025
Traffic moves along on a road at the junction Saint-Michel next to a roadblock, following reports of a coup attempt underway against the government of Benin's President Patrice Talon, in Cotonou, Benin, December 7, 2025.
—CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025
The Fastiv junction station and commuter rolling stock were damaged overnight.
—Associate News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025
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Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 27 Dec. 2025
Mountains and forests rush by outside, broken up by junctions, barriers and bridges, the quality of light shifts along with the seasons.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 17 Dec. 2025
Traffic moves along on a road at the junction Saint-Michel next to a roadblock, following reports of a coup attempt underway against the government of Benin's President Patrice Talon, in Cotonou, Benin, December 7, 2025.
—CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025
The Fastiv junction station and commuter rolling stock were damaged overnight.
—Associate News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for junction
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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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SwifDoo also supports merging or splitting files, batch processing multiple documents, and converting PDFs to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and image formats.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
7 Nov. 2025
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Additionally, as the district considers closing and merging schools, Cassellius said the money could support new or improved recreational facilities at schools receiving displaced students.—
Rory Linnane,
jsonline.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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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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Last week’s episodes forced players to both cut a member of the Z-Team (Sonar or Coupé), then subsequently add a new one (Phenomaman or Waterboy), leading to different variations of certain scenes, but also cutting entire characters out of the narrative at this juncture.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
7 Nov. 2025
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Kentucky leads the pack with 2,423 wins at this juncture.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
5 Nov. 2025
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For instance, red geysers that showed signs of galaxy interactions or past minor mergers contained much more inflowing gas.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Jan. 2026
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According to The Detroit News, Comerica Park, home of the MLB’s Detroit Tigers, will be renamed as soon as 2027 as a result of the merger.—
Sasha Richie,
Dallas Morning News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Beijing has pledged that unification is inevitable—by force if necessary—and has significantly ramped up military activities in the Taiwan Strait in recent years.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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Tommaso di Lampedusa’s novel, which looks at the unification of Italy from the perspective of a 20th-century writer, had a modernity that interested me.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025
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Another option is loan consolidation, which rolls your overdue loan into a new one that’s considered current.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Sacbee.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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Debt consolidation can also provide relief to borrowers by combining multiple high-rate debts into one loan and payment with a lower interest rate.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Thankfully, due to a lot of personal research, the connecting of many dots, and a strong Wi-Fi signal, Teddy has uncovered the truth.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Junction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junction. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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