crisis

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  1. noun A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
  2. noun An unstable condition, as in political, social, or economic affairs, involving an impending abrupt or decisive change.
  3. noun A sudden change in the course of a disease or fever, toward either improvement or deterioration.

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  • Her socialism was entirely the outcome of her suffering and torments as a child Things had to come to a crisis, and the crisis was atrocious. —  George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings
  • According to the report, "One long-term consequence of this crisis is the difficulty for young people to distinguish what is 'correct' and what is 'incorrect'; what is 'true' and what is 'false', as traditional grounding values have been radically altered by recent events." —  AllAfrica News: Latest
  • "I believe growing markets outside Europe have to be looked for as their recovery from the crisis will be the fastest," Tlapa told CTK. —  Prague Monitor
  • Nonetheless, despite the EU's trouncing by Russia here, the Europhiles still have their heads in the clouds. blog suggests that the crisis is an opportunity to develop a common European identity: —  Open Europe blog
  • Usually the crisis is a diesel fuel leak from damaged tractor-trailer saddle tanks, and migration of 200-gallons of volatile or ganic liquid into off-road soils and perhaps sources of water. —  CounterPunch
 

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  1. Middle English, from Latin, judgment, from Greek krisis, from krīnein, to separate, judge; see krei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French crisc = Spanish crisis = Portuguese crise = Italian crise, crisi, from Latin crisis, from Greek κρίσις, a separating, decision, decisive point, crisis, from κρίνειν, separate, decide: see critic, crime, certain.
 

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/ˈkraɪsɪs/
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