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as in intersections
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 mergers
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 corners
a place where roads meet
the town finally installed a traffic light at that busy junction
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Recent Examples of junctions
This causes the PPy and PSS to separate into tiny regions, creating thousands of junctions where electrons and ions interact.
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Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2025
Surprisingly, cognitive decline in healthy aging isn't as simple as neurons dying, but rather neurons losing their spark at the synapse, the tiny junctions where signals leap from cell to cell.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
The most recent trailer shows off winding rooftop race tracks, towering mega ramps, and perilous trick courses through bustling junctions.
—Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
At Imec, these junctions have been manufactured using a new set of materials, allowing the team to scale down the technology without losing functionality.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024
Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2025
Surprisingly, cognitive decline in healthy aging isn't as simple as neurons dying, but rather neurons losing their spark at the synapse, the tiny junctions where signals leap from cell to cell.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
The most recent trailer shows off winding rooftop race tracks, towering mega ramps, and perilous trick courses through bustling junctions.
—Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
At Imec, these junctions have been manufactured using a new set of materials, allowing the team to scale down the technology without losing functionality.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for junctions
Noun
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Podrabinek captures the painful intersections between personal and political in a dissident’s life, and the solidarity that kept the resistance moving forward.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Featuring women at the intersections of gender, age, disability, and disease, Pinjar is a nuanced illustration of this.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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A lot of people are looking at mergers and acquisitions or looking at selling shares in their company.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
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Consumer giant Kimberly-Clark, which makes Huggies diapers and Kleenex tissues, is buying the company that makes Tylenol and Band-Aids in one of the biggest mergers of the year.—
NPR,
NPR,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Celebrity makeup artist Michael Anthony accentuated her under eyes using a brightening concealer and kissed the faintest shade of pink to her outer corners next to long lash extensions that reached her brows.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
10 Nov. 2025
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At the memorial, at least in some corners, she was being received with reverence.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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As this weekly chart shows, NFLX has a strong history of breaking out from similar consolidations, often following through to new highs.—
Frank Cappelleri,
CNBC,
22 Oct. 2025
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The difference is that the majority of the shuttered newspapers last year was not the result of consolidations by big chains, but longtime independent owners who have given up — at places like the Wasatch Wave in Utah or the Aurelia Star in Iowa, the report said.—
David Bauder,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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Before that, were there additional unifications that occurred?—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
16 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Junctions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junctions. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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