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Another word for crisis

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Noun

  1. A decisive point

    See also:

    decide

  2. A highly volatile dangerous situation requiring immediate remedial action

    See also:

    safety

    politics

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Another word for crisis

Noun
  1. Antonyms:
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Sentence Examples

  • In 1887 a severe banking crisis occurred in Sardinia.

  • the larger part of his life, at that great crisis of the world's history, in other lands.

  • They would part at the first interesting crisis in their adventures.

  • The crisis came with the discovery of a treasonable plot for the subornation of the army, in which many Socialist members of the Duma were involved.

  • In its ultimate effects the crisis was by no means evil.

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