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  • That is the crux of the layman's trouble in understanding evolution: it works on a time scale so far beyond personal experience that one must train oneself to think in eons, not decades.†  (source)
  • Having lived his life in the heat of battle, at the crux of conversation, and in the twentieth row with its privileged view of the ladies in the loges— that is, in the very thick of things—suddenly, he finds himself invisible to friend and foe alike And the spell that had been cast over the Count by Anna Urbanova in 1923 was of this very sort.†  (source)
  • It was stunning to Mariam how quickly alleviating hunger became the crux of their existence.†  (source)
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  • This was the crux of the biscuit, as my father would have said.†  (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)
  • But firstly, no, Harry, not seven Hor-cruxes: six.†  (source)
  • I mean, are we sure it's still a Hor-crux?†  (source)
  • But all that was a long time ago—I don't even remember how many years ago that happened in Las Cruces.†  (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)
  • Your story is emotionally dead, that's the crux of it.†  (source)
  • "Las Cruces," she said.†  (source)
  • Because that's the crux of it, isn't it, Ben?†  (source)
  • 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)
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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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