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at the crossroads
Idioms and Phrases
Also, at a crossroads . At a point of decision or a critical juncture, as in Because of the proposed merger, the company is standing at the crossroads . This phrase, based on the importance accorded to the intersection of two roads since ancient times, has also been used figuratively just about as long. In the 1500s Erasmus quoted from the Greek Theognis's Elegies (c. 600 b.c. ): “I stand at the crossroads.”Example Sentences
In oscillating between expressing radical emotional honesty and playing with failure in her utilization of irony, she served up a prophetic glimpse of what ultimately became the standard milieu of young people at the crossroads between irony-obsessed Millennials and sincerity-possessed Gen Zers.
This summer, Boyle Heights Beat reported on a program that was giving out free air purifiers to residents, a story that was widely shared in a community at the crossroads of five freeways whose residents have high levels of cardiovascular issues.
Afghan food has been influenced by different cultures across Asia given the country’s location at the crossroads of the famous “Silk Road” trading corridor of centuries past.
It’s also one that sits at the crossroads of peace and war, a junction where Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the French educator and athlete who established the modern Olympics, believed sports were uniquely positioned to direct traffic.
I came here as the executive producer of Pacifica Radio Network’s "We Decide: America at the Crossroads 2024," a community-based reporting project I created that’s been funded by some of the nation’s largest unions as well as state and regional locals.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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