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juncture
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  • To Mamaw, Dad was the "sperm donor" who had abandoned me at a critical juncture.  (source)
  • My grandparents knew that I was at a crucial juncture in my life.  (source)
    juncture = point in time and circumstances
  • Port Ticonderoga has two rivers, the Jogues and the Louveteau — the names being relics of the French trading post situated once at their juncture, not that we go in for French around these parts: it's the Jogs and the Lovetow for us.  (source)
    juncture = meeting point
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  • It seemed that the village—not Kya—awaited judgment, and few felt the salacious joy they had expected at this juncture.  (source)
    juncture = point in time
  • So it is not surprising to find that so many accusations against people are in the handwriting of Thomas Putnam, or that his name is so often found as a witness corroborating the supernatural testimony, or that his daughter led the crying-out at the most opportune junctures of the trials...  (source)
    junctures = points in time
  • What you would like to revile as the disjuncture of speech and life is nothing more than a higher unity in beauty's crown, and I have no fear which side high-minded youth will always take in a struggle where the choice is between literature and barbarism.†  (source)
    disjuncture = the state of being disconnected; or a location where things are disconnected
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disjuncture reverses the meaning of juncture. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
  • He could imagine nothing important enough that Collet would interrupt this surveillance cachée—especially at this critical juncture.  (source)
    juncture = point in time
  • Flora surreptitiously (The Criminal Element recommended surreptitious action at all possible junctures) removed the lid from the shoe box.†  (source)
  • At this juncture, Armstrong felt what was needed was a man of action.  (source)
    juncture = important point in time
  • We hitand-run each other at odd junctures, off hours.†  (source)
  • And moving was a very good idea at that juncture of the battle.†  (source)
  • On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong and rocky Gabilan Mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees —willows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter's flooding; and sycamores with mottled, white, recumbent limbs and branches that arch over the pool.†  (source)
  • We'd reached the juncture of the hallway where I had to turn for algebra and Boris had to turn for American Government: the bane of his existence.†  (source)
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