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

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 “almost” will be the crux of the storyline—without a towering, wooden, propane-fired “man” to burn one year, the festival can’t rise phoenix-like the next.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

The crux lies in what counts as a financial adviser.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

Though the mathematics eluded me, the crux of the matter was not difficult to follow.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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

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

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

The sterility of hybrids has been always considered one of the great cruces in connection with any theory of Evolution. 

From Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals by Samuel Butler

These sorts of cruces always are to 224 me the most insoluble, and I should not wonder if D.B. stuck there for a week or two.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Andrew Lang

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

There were all sorts of legal cruxes to be thought out, not only regarding the taking of life, even of a monstrosity in human form, but also of property. 

From Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker