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juncture
[ juhngk-cher ]
noun
- a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances:
At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.
- a serious state of affairs; crisis:
The matter has reached a juncture and a decision must be made.
- the line or point at which two bodies are joined; joint or articulation; seam.
- the act of joining.
- the state of being joined.
- something by which two things are joined.
- Phonetics.
- a pause or other phonological feature or modification of a feature, as the lengthening of a preceding phoneme or the strengthening of a following one, marking a transition or break between sounds, especially marking the phonological boundary of a word, clause, or sentence: it is present in such words as night-rate and re-seed and absent in such words as nitrate and recede. Compare close juncture, open juncture, terminal juncture.
- the point in a word or group of words at which such a pause or other junctural marker occurs.
juncture
/ ˈʌŋʃə /
noun
- a point in time, esp a critical one (often in the phrase at this juncture )
- linguistics
- a pause in speech or a feature of pronunciation that introduces, accompanies, or replaces a pause
- the set of phonological features signalling a division between words, such as those that distinguish a name from an aim
- a less common word for junction
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see at this point (juncture) .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
When asked how he would define his career at this juncture, Bacon winced a little bit, saying it isn’t something he does too often.
But at the most important juncture of USC’s season, Smith showed no signs of slowing.
His main concern at this juncture was the effect it was having on the economy which he needed to be booming before the fall campaign.
At every juncture, if somebody’s like, ‘Oh, but here’s this social rule or assumption that I made that this is breaking,’ I’m like, ‘We don’t give a f— about it.’
“If they arrive at this juncture and understand that he is serious, they would prefer to return to war, commit suicide, suffer more dramatic damage in Gaza — but not to give up.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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