crise

American  

[kreez] / kriz /

noun

French.

• crises
  plural

1. crisis.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• crises
  plural

Example Sentences

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crise crises

The result is a large, permanent loss in output featuring persistently high unemployment, company liquidations and financial crise.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2020

There was more to Peter’s crise than his worry about Patsy or growing distaste for his surreptitious assignment.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2018

France has referred to la crise since the Mitterrand years – that’s a long time in freefall.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2016

Such incidents work to the advantage of the rebels by creating in metropolitan France what the French themselves acknowledge to be a crise de conscience.

From Time Magazine Archive

"This seems to be a new period and crise of the most great affair," writes Baillie, recording these facts.

From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson

When I graduated from college, I aspired to be a war correspondent and report on the humanitarian crises shaping our time.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

The unreliable airspace and transport networks – coupled with agricultural losses, business disruption and reconstruction costs – trigger banking and insurance crises, producing a global recession.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

For Roberts, the last month has looked like an episode of “The Pitt,” with medical crises piling up, one atop the other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

“Banking crises are not caused by high levels of debt,” he told me, “but rather by asset-liability mismatches.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

With so many crises competing for Roosevelt’s attention, the Uranium Committee continued to just crawl along.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin