conjuncture

Example Sentences

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Given the crisis of education, agency and memory that haunts the current historical conjuncture, educators need a new political and pedagogical language.

From Salon

In Galileo’s words, this was "a marvelous conjuncture," because he could have his conviction that the Earth moved around the sun, and not the other way around, approved by the Pope himself.

From Scientific American

The anti-Semitism that grows from this conjuncture lies not just in the mind and not just in the institutions: It resides somewhere in between, in a system that is now functioning in a new way.

From New York Times

In the current conjuncture, what’s more, there’s something to be said for accepting that you are, willy-nilly, white, because you can use your whiteness as an anti-racist instrument.

From New York Times

But out of the conjuncture of foul water, poor health, and the responsibility they felt as mothers to protect their families, they would develop into two of Flint’s most prominent “water warriors.”

From Salon