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crucial period
noun as in turning point
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- axis
- change
- climacteric
- contingency
- crisis
- critical mass
- critical moment
- critical period
- crossing
- crossroads
- crucial moment
- crucial occurrence
- 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
The year 1837 was a crucial period in many respects for Lincoln.
In its later developments the entire history may change when the crucial period comes, and have a very different outcome.
It is a crucial period in our life, fraught with pitfalls and dangers, with privileges and opportunities.
In military rank, even if in nothing else, he was the principal man in this region during the crucial period of the Revolution.
But it was of incalculable profit to Cuba to have it so strongly aroused and manifested at that crucial period in her history.
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On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to crucial 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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