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juncturenoun a particular and often important moment in timeat the present juncture, I think the country is looking for a strong president point beat, crack, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, minute, moment, nanosecond, second, shake, split second, tick, trice, twinkle, winkbit, spell, stretch, whilebrink, cusp, nick, threshold, vergecrisis, crunch time, wire moment of truth a place where two or more things are unitedthe water is leaking at the juncture of those two pipes connection, coupling, join, joining, joint, jointure, junction link, nexus, tieinterconnection, intersectionabutment, articulation, attachmentseam, sutureconcourse, confluence, meetingunion cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, gap, rift, separation a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive actionwe have now arrived at a juncture where something must be done to avert war boiling point, breaking point, clutch, conjuncture, crisis, crossroad(s), crunch, crunch time, Dunkirk, emergency, exigency, extremity, flash point, head, tinderbox, zero hour contingency, possibilityclimax, turning pointhappening, landmark, milestonecondition, pass, situation, straitdeadlock, impasse, stalematecorner, fix, hole, hot water, jam, last ditch, pinch, predicament, scrape, spoteleventh hour, last minute moment of truth, point of no return juncture, exigency, emergency, contingency, pinch, strait (or straits) crisis mean a critical or crucial time or state of affairs.juncture stresses the significant concurrence or convergence of events.an important juncture in our country's history exigency stresses the pressure of restrictions or urgency of demands created by a special situation.provide for exigencies emergency applies to a sudden unforeseen situation requiring prompt action to avoid disaster.the presence of mind needed to deal with emergencies contingency implies an emergency or exigency that is regarded as possible but uncertain of occurrence.contingency plans pinch implies urgency or pressure for action to a less intense degree than exigency or emergency.come through in a pinch strait, now commonly straits, applies to a troublesome situation from which escape is extremely difficult.in dire straits crisis applies to a juncture whose outcome will make a decisive difference.a crisis of confidence in the 14th century |