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decisive moment
noun as in critical mass
noun as in crossroad/crossroads
Weak matches
noun as in defining moment
noun as in moment of truth
noun as in point of no return
noun as in turning point
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
- 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
Example Sentences
The decisive moment for Michael Ofer-Ziv came when the IDF shot three Israeli hostages in Gaza in December 2023.
A decisive moment came in the fourth quarter when Jayden Graham came up with an interception in the end zone for Simi Valley after miscommunication between Pizzella and his receiver with Simi Valley ahead 42-40.
The decisive moment in the match came seconds before half-time when a penalty was awarded after Mehdi Taremi's flick on from a corner struck Merino on the hand.
Three days before Georgians vote in an election billed as a decisive moment in their country's future, the founder of the governing Georgian Dream party has told thousands of supporters "we choose peace, not war".
The decisive moment of the race came just after the pit stops.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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