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crux
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  • His eyes blazed with intensity, just as they had months ago in New Mexico, when he'd battled us in the streets of Las Cruces and vowed to destroy us.†  (source)
  • But all that was a long time ago—I don't even remember how many years ago that happened in Las Cruces.†  (source)
  • He would have slept where he was tired: maybe in the Las Cruces city park, maybe in an abandoned car out in the desert.†  (source)
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  • And now all that feels so unfinished I never got to the crux of it.†  (source)
  • I will arrange to be in Las Cruces, New Mexico, tonight.†  (source)
  • But firstly, no, Harry, not seven Hor-cruxes: six.†  (source)
  • This was the crux of the biscuit, as my father would have said.†  (source)
  • Las Cruces is out of our way by forty miles—over those mountains.†  (source)
  • The idea of the locket being stolen was absurd...As for the school: He alone knew where in Hogwarts he had stowed the Horcrux, because he alone had plumed the deepest secrets of that place...And there was still Nagini, who must remain close now, no longer sent to do his bidding, under his protection...But to be sure, to be utterly sure, he must return to each of his hiding places, he must redouble protection around each of his Hor-cruxes...A job, like the quest for the Elder Wand, that he must undertake alone...Which should he visit first, which was in most danger?†  (source)
  • It was stunning to Mariam how quickly alleviating hunger became the crux of their existence.†  (source)
  • But I don't see how Las Cruces comes into play.†  (source)
  • Because that's the crux of it, isn't it, Ben?†  (source)
  • Las Cruces spread out in the valley below—a glowing patchwork of streets and neighborhoods.†  (source)
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She'll be on her way to Las Cruces, New Mexico, preparing for her role as Queen of the Mutant Grasshoppers.  (source)
Cruces = part of the name of a place
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