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turning point
noun as in critical juncture
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- axis
- change
- climacteric
- contingency
- crisis
- critical mass
- critical moment
- critical period
- crossing
- crossroads
- crucial moment
- crucial occurrence
- crucial period
- crunch
- cusp
- decisive moment
- defining moment
- development
- emergency
- exigency
- high noon
- hinge
- kairotic moment
- moment of truth
- nexus
- pass
- peak
- peripeteia
- pinch
- pivot
- pivotal moment
- point of no return
- race against time
- rising action
- shift
- strait
- transition
- turn of the tide
- when push comes to shove
- zero hour
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The iPod, which launched in 2001, marked a turning point for the company, revolutionizing the way the world listens to music.
There’s a case to be made that 2020, for all the sacrifices it demanded and tragedies it inflicted, could at least mark a turning point on climate change.
This proved a significant turning point in the Senate for Democrats, however, because half of these seats would be filled by Republicans.
Apple, for example, is not-so-secretly developing a pair of AR glasses, which they hope will deliver a mainstream turning point for the technology.
The turning point came in the fall, as the temperature dropped.
The Butterbrief, issued by Pope Innocent VIII, was a turning point for the then bland Stollen, which gradually became sweeter.
“Here It Goes Again” was a turning point for how people thought about the band.
A turning point came some 25 years ago, when her close friend Carol contracted ovarian cancer.
“A turning point in my life was when I watched the movie Titanic,” Yeonmi told the audience at the Oslo Freedom Forum.
In the book, I have an interesting turning-point conversation with historian H.R. Trevor-Roper.
He was very calm over it, was Jean Baptiste; but the turning point in his life had come.
Sir Matthew Fleet's visit seemed like a turning-point with the May family, rousing and giving them revived hopes.
In consequence of these reflections a great change comes over him, which is the turning-point of his history.
It is the high-water mark of the Rebellion,—a turning-point of history and of human destiny!
We come now to the great turning point in the modern history of Ireland-the Union.
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On this page you'll find 78 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to turning point, such as: climax, critical point, crux, culmination, juncture, and twist.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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