conjuncture
Americannoun
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a combination of circumstances; a particular state of affairs.
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a critical state of affairs; crisis.
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conjunction; joining.
noun
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a combination of events, esp a critical one
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rare a union; conjunction
Other Word Forms
- conjunctural adjective
Etymology
Origin of conjuncture
Example Sentences
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What is happening in France now is the conjuncture of several crises at once: political, economic, and social – and that is what makes the moment feel so significant.
From BBC
It can also extract chemical information from the experimental training database, offering conjunctures about unknown mechanisms.
From Science Daily
For whatever set of reasons — it may have something to do with natural harbors or some other historical conjuncture — this idea of representative democracy was developed first in Europe.
From Salon
Given the crisis of education, agency and memory that haunts the current historical conjuncture, educators need a new political and pedagogical language.
From Salon
In Galileo’s words, this was "a marvelous conjuncture," because he could have his conviction that the Earth moved around the sun, and not the other way around, approved by the Pope himself.
From Scientific American
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