crossroad

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Stephan's Quintet represents "a galactic crossroad where past collisions between galaxies have left behind a complex field of debris," which has now been reawakened by the passage of the galaxy, NGC 7318b.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024

But using remote sensing technology, archeologists have now found at least two highland cities that sat along a key crossroad of the trade routes.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024

After World War II, Cook purchased and moved a single-story mess hall with a walk-in cooler from a mothballed airfield near John Wayne Airport to this crossroad, the gateway to Trabuco Canyon.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2023

The 25x10-meter mural of a bearded and smiling Messi, wearing Argentina’s white-and-blue national team jersey with the No. 10, will cover part of a building at a crossroad near the capital city’s main hospitals.

From Washington Times • Jun. 8, 2023

At the time of the crossroad contretemps, Eugene Hammond of the newly organized Overland Automobile Company of Terre Haute was the motorneer at the wheel of the car.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck