juncture
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But she stressed Wednesday that "at this juncture, I see it as prudent to give a bit more time to observe how inflation unfolds from here."
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Hitchcock knew that the suspense must be maintained at every juncture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Yet this is clearly a delicate juncture in his career as he approaches his 29th birthday.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
These conditions don’t really exist at this juncture, the report argues, “but each appears closer than it did just a few months ago.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 2026
Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage market was a shortage of people willing to bet against it.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Both junctures would have taken others months to recover from.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Give him the benefit of hindsight and look at the previous junctures at which he was condemned for not bringing the war to a conclusion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
I’m a hospice physician, and it’s at junctures like this that I can offer a life vest that completely changes the end-of-life experience.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2025
They plan for him to succeed or fail at certain junctures but don’t fully take into account what he’s wired to question along the way.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
But some, those occurring at critical junctures or branch points, may change the pattern of history.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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