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critical period
noun as in turning point
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- axis
- change
- climacteric
- contingency
- crisis
- critical mass
- critical moment
- crossing
- crossroads
- crucial moment
- crucial occurrence
- crucial period
- crunch
- cusp
- decisive moment
- defining moment
- development
- emergency
- exigency
- high noon
- hinge
- kairotic moment
- moment of truth
- nexus
- pass
- peak
- peripeteia
- pinch
- pivot
- pivotal moment
- point of no return
- race against time
- rising action
- shift
- strait
- transition
- turn of the tide
- when push comes to shove
- zero hour
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Example Sentences
Colleges are entering a critical period, but so far the customers still believe.
I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period.
This is a critical period…for us to get it done professionally.
Its influence was most positive, and pregnant with good at that critical period between school and manhood.
His success must not make us forget the courage and the political insight which he displayed during this critical period.
Harry Harrison came forward at this critical period of the minstrel enterprise and took upon himself the management.
His wife accompanied him, and now there began for them the culminating and most critical period of their lives.
The government whips did not like it; at such a critical period too, when it was necessary to keep the Dissenters up to the mark!
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On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to critical period, such as: climax, critical point, crux, culmination, juncture, and twist.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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