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as in intersection
usually crossroads plural
a place where roads meet
the fast-food chain has a restaurant at practically every crossroads
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as in crisis
usually crossroads plural
a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action
we've come to a crossroads, and we have to make a decision
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Recent Examples of crossroad
New owners Greg Penner and Carrie Walton Penner had run the team for only a few months, yet were already at a crossroads.
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Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
California’s capital city is at several transportation crossroads.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 1 Jan. 2026
America is at a crossroads; we have been divided across race, ethnicity, gender and political party for too long.
—Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2026
Continue reading … SPECULATION SWIRLS – Rob Gronkowski makes bold Travis Kelce prediction as Chiefs star faces career crossroads.
—FOXNews.com, 29 Dec. 2025
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Three people were killed and two others were hospitalized after two vehicles collided Saturday afternoon at an intersection on the American River Parkway near North Sacramento.—
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The neighborhood is near the intersection of Oakdale Road and Pleasant Grove Road in northwest Charlotte.—
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Over the past decade and a half, millions from the Middle East, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia arrived amid successive crises in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, and beyond.—
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Of course, 2008 was the start of the subprime mortgage crisis, which led to the Great Recession and housing crash, when the market was flooded with distressed homes, giving buyers all the power.—
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Space-savers will include pull-out vertical pantries that slide into narrow spaces, toe-kick drawers that utilize the area beneath your cabinets and corner carousel units that make those awkward spaces accessible.—
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Halfway through the season, things have turned dark — as dark as the empty corners of ExtraMile Arena during Wednesday night’s shocking 72-55 loss to Grand Canyon.—
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When powered by concentrated sunlight via a triple-junction solar cell, the device produced hydrogen at a record rate of 519 micromoles per hour per square centimeter.—
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The wet weather, combined with an earlier storm over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, was also responsible for the shuttering of all lanes on a 27-mile stretch of the 101 Freeway extending from the junction of SR1 and Highway 1 to Winchester Canyon Road in Goleta due to heavy flooding.—
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“Crossroad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crossroad. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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