crux

The crux was a proposal to introduce a bill to parliament to impose sanctions on energy firms planning to begin oil exploration off the Falklands.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The crux of the players’ argument is that they were missing an opportunity—and a payday—afforded to athletes before and after them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Last year, with her second LP “The Art of Loving,” Dean became the latest British woman to earn global fame at the crux of old-soul balladry and modern pop panache.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

The crux lies in what counts as a financial adviser.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

And now all that feels so unfinished- I never got to the crux of it.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

Then after a page or two we come to the chief cruces of Moore's pathetic and of his comic manner, "The Last Rose of Summer," "The Young May Moon," and "The Minstrel Boy."

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury

This is one of the textual cruces of the play.

From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black

The comparative accuracy of this outline, so incredibly good as mere guesswork, must remain one of the chief cruces of Mediæval geography.

From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. II by Gomes Eannes de Zurara

Good wine and sound ale have their uses, To distinguish 'twixt which and abuses The clear-headed want; But illogical cant Will ne'er solve our worst social cruces.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891 by Various

In "Memories and Portraits," Stevenson says: "A good serious play must be founded on one of the passionate cruces of life, where duty and inclination come nobly to the grapple."

From Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page

One of the cruxes of sleep hygiene is consistency.

From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2022

That’s why Rana’s lawsuit cruxes on Amazon’s algorithms, apps, and devices that Amazon uses to micromanage its workers.

From The Verge ● Nov. 14, 2021

The students’ argument in court, which is a part of the Xiaocheng Cup Public Welfare Litigation Competition, cruxes on this premise.

From The Verge ● Oct. 27, 2021

Payne flits between the two cataclysms, first with slow precision, and then, as the cruxes approach, back and forth cinematically, the borders showing some slippage.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2019

Besides, the points already mentioned, it helps to explain several of the cruxes and paradoxes of aesthetics.

From The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics by Vernon Lee