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crux

[kruhks] / krʌks /


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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

“Crucially, we also believe we are at the crux of a gross margin inflection point, driven by improving utilizations and GlobalFoundries aggressively expanding into accretive end-markets,” Muse wrote.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

The crux of the outrage surrounding Fennell’s film stemmed largely from the fact that she refused to rename her relatively loose, aesthetic-minded adaptation with a title that didn’t directly reference Emily Brontë’s novel.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

But the sprawl was really the crux of it.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

It was stunning to Mariam how quickly alleviating hunger became the crux of their existence.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini




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