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pivotal moment

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A pivotal moment comes when Amir admits he felt more than a flicker of pride when fanatics attacked the Twin Towers.

The event became a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement and a historic time in Mississippi politics.

The Giver, in a pivotal moment, tells Jonas that releasing is actually a form of euthanizing.

The Guardian claimed it was “the pivotal moment when the impressionable Anastasia Steele loses her virginity to Grey.”

The post quickly went viral, becoming a symbol of intolerance at a pivotal moment in French politics.

This is the motto, drawn from Emerson, which she chooses for her poem of "Epochs," which marks a pivotal moment in her life.

The pivotal moment, hinged in Jim Wilson's mind, that could have changed the situation, had come and gone.

The swift, appalling catastrophe had crashed into his career at the pivotal moment.

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On this page you'll find 73 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pivotal moment, such as: climax, critical point, crux, culmination, juncture, and twist.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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