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Last year, with her second LP “The Art of Loving,” Dean became the latest British woman to earn global fame at the crux of old-soul balladry and modern pop panache.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

The “almost” will be the crux of the storyline—without a towering, wooden, propane-fired “man” to burn one year, the festival can’t rise phoenix-like the next.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

The crux lies in what counts as a financial adviser.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

The crux of Brockman's testimony so far has been that Musk was aware of plans to shift OpenAI to be more of a traditional for-profit business.

From BBC ● May 5, 2026

He would often say it when he felt Kathy was focusing on irrelevant details while ignoring the crux of a problem.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

These sorts of cruces always are to 224 me the most insoluble, and I should not wonder if D.B. stuck there for a week or two.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Andrew Lang

This is one of the textual cruces of the play.

From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black

The comparative accuracy of this outline, so incredibly good as mere guesswork, must remain one of the chief cruces of Mediæval geography.

From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. II by Gomes Eannes de Zurara

Good wine and sound ale have their uses, To distinguish 'twixt which and abuses The clear-headed want; But illogical cant Will ne'er solve our worst social cruces.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891 by Various

In "Memories and Portraits," Stevenson says: "A good serious play must be founded on one of the passionate cruces of life, where duty and inclination come nobly to the grapple."

From Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page

One of the cruxes of sleep hygiene is consistency.

From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2022

That’s why Rana’s lawsuit cruxes on Amazon’s algorithms, apps, and devices that Amazon uses to micromanage its workers.

From The Verge ● Nov. 14, 2021

The students’ argument in court, which is a part of the Xiaocheng Cup Public Welfare Litigation Competition, cruxes on this premise.

From The Verge ● Oct. 27, 2021

His ferociously annotated versions of the Pentateuch and of the Psalms chaperone the Hebrew-less reader through many dense cruxes.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016

Some of these cruxes, Sir Walter tells us, could not be solved by the examiner, and were laid before Boz himself, with a copy of the questions. 

From Pickwickian Studies by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald