conjuncture

Example Sentences

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What is happening in France now is the conjuncture of several crises at once: political, economic, and social – and that is what makes the moment feel so significant.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2025

Given the crisis of education, agency and memory that haunts the current historical conjuncture, educators need a new political and pedagogical language.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2021

In Galileo’s words, this was "a marvelous conjuncture," because he could have his conviction that the Earth moved around the sun, and not the other way around, approved by the Pope himself.

From Scientific American • Jul. 9, 2021

NAU Police originally called it “an unattended death” and investigated the case in conjuncture with Flagstaff police and the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

From Washington Times • Jun. 21, 2018

They put on a very unconcerned demeanour, and, as is always the case in such a conjuncture, behaved in the prettiest manner all that evening and night.

From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor