critical period

noun

psychol a period in a lifetime during which a specific stage of development usually occurs. If it fails to do so, it cannot readily occur afterwards

Colleges are entering a critical period, but so far the customers still believe.

I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period.

This is a critical period…for us to get it done professionally.

Its influence was most positive, and pregnant with good at that critical period between school and manhood.

His success must not make us forget the courage and the political insight which he displayed during this critical period.

Harry Harrison came forward at this critical period of the minstrel enterprise and took upon himself the management.

His wife accompanied him, and now there began for them the culminating and most critical period of their lives.

The government whips did not like it; at such a critical period too, when it was necessary to keep the Dissenters up to the mark!

April 18, 2024petrichor

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