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How to pronounce crossroads in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hamlet
Type of community
Type Words
Synonyms critical point, juncture
Type of crisis
Has types criticality
Type Words
Type of convergence, intersection, overlap


Freud's work stands at the crossroads between psychology and neurology.

Examples of crossroads

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The vast studio in Chelsea marked a new sort of crossroads for fashion and film.
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The play is about how each of these three characters is at a crossroads in life.
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After a decade of unprecedented economic growth, the country is at a crossroads.
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Back on the Alcan, you'll reach a crossroads at Watson Lake, near the BC border.
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In 1980, after 10 years at The Times, I was at a crossroads in my personal life.
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Almost a decade after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Muslim world is at a crossroads.
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Greece could now be at a crossroads, which requires a bit of history to explain.
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For small business-owner Liu Pingan, the holiday period represents a crossroads.
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The crossroads all go to the beach, and the wind off the Atlantic was ferocious.
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More examples
  • Hamlet: a community of people smaller than a village
  • Juncture: a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made; "at that juncture he had no idea what to do"; "he must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point"
  • A point where a choice must be made; "Freud's work stands at the crossroads between psychology and neurology"
  • (crossroad) intersection: a junction where one street or road crosses another
  • Crossroads is a 1937 Chinese tragicomedy film directed by Shen Xiling and starring Bai Yang and Zhao Dan. The film exemplified the growing trend of Chinese films by the mid-1930s of incorporating references (both veiled and explicit) to the war with Japan. ...
  • Crossroads is a 1942 mystery film starring William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor and Basil Rathbone. Powell plays a diplomat whose amnesia about his past comes back to trouble him.
  • Crossroads is the title of a 30-minute American television religion drama series which aired from 1955-1957, the first season on ABC and the second via syndication.
  • Crossroads is a 1976 short film directed by Bruce Conner. It features extreme slow-motion replays of the July 25, 1946 Operation Crossroads Baker underwater nuclear test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. . ...
  • Crossroads is a 1986 cult film starring Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca and Jami Gertz, inspired by the legend of blues musician Robert Johnson.