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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
The wet weather, combined with an earlier storm over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, was also responsible for the shuttering of all lanes on a 27-mile stretch of the 101 Freeway extending from the junction of SR1 and Highway 1 to Winchester Canyon Road in Goleta due to heavy flooding.
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Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2026
Highways, viaducts, giant interchanges, and a major Metro junction viciously mutilated São Paulo’s downtown in the 1960s and ’70s, demoting it from a popular residential area to a commercial transfer hub, overcrowded and polluted by day but forlorn by night.
—Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
Taiwan lies near the junction of two tectonic plates and is prone to earthquakes.
—CNN Money, 27 Dec. 2025
Taiwan is prone to earthquakes and is near the junction of two tectonic plates.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 27 Dec. 2025
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Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2026
Highways, viaducts, giant interchanges, and a major Metro junction viciously mutilated São Paulo’s downtown in the 1960s and ’70s, demoting it from a popular residential area to a commercial transfer hub, overcrowded and polluted by day but forlorn by night.
—Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
Taiwan lies near the junction of two tectonic plates and is prone to earthquakes.
—CNN Money, 27 Dec. 2025
Taiwan is prone to earthquakes and is near the junction of two tectonic plates.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 27 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for junction
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Crowds appeared to dwindle as tensions rose near ICE's Los Angeles Field Office at the intersection of East Temple and North Alameda streets.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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The intersection is controlled by stop signs, and many vehicles using the area are either getting onto southbound Highway 160 or exiting northbound Highway 160.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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This engine provides strong performance for highway merging, overtaking, and spirited driving, while maintaining smooth and responsive handling.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Jan. 2026
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This is attributed to two branches of the jet stream merging, and the dip in the jet stream elongating more, which allows for stronger rising motion ahead of the system.—
Trey Fulbright,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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The two men, in their respective corners, stared each other down.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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The box office is at the southwest corner of the arena.—
Mars Salazar,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Feb. 2026
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Utah is probably the sixth most talented overall side in the Western Conference at this juncture, and should be a heavy favourite to emerge as the first wild-card team at the conclusion of the regular season.—
Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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The cold start proved costly, as the Bulldogs failed to hold the lead at any juncture in suffering their third straight loss after opening the game 1-of-10 shooting.—
Mike Griffith,
AJC.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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His merger this week of his rocket company SpaceX with his artificial intelligence company xAI could help get them there.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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The SpaceX-xAI merger could be a first step in that direction, and the consolidation a way to move toward steady cash flows and conservative capital to source the immense resources required to fund the AI boom.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
3 Feb. 2026
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Those data points then go through a unification process where AI compares the item to more than 300 million others in Phia’s database to identify the best seller.—
Alexandra York,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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The drill was part of an intensifying military pressure campaign to intimidate the Taiwanese leadership, demoralize the population, and wear down the island’s resistance to unification with the mainland.—
Andy Browne,
semafor.com,
15 Jan. 2026
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However, that growth is threatened by further consolidation.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
5 Feb. 2026
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Instead of an intelligent, reasonable exploration of the historic harms of corporate consolidation, the MAGA Republicans who dominated the panel used their questions to create more content for the right-wing outrage machine.—
Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
5 Feb. 2026
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The power-plant theory is an iteration of that tradition—a movement away from mystical explanations such as the Curse of the Billy Goat and toward shareable deep dives, investigations, and dot-connecting.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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SpaceX's Starlink constellation, which now totals more than 9,100 operational satellites, provides internet access to areas around the world where other means of connecting are either sparse non existent.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
7 Dec. 2025
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“Junction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junction. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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