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a period of intense pressure; a critical situation: It's crunch time for high-tech companies.Compare crunch (def. 10).

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Origin of crunch time

1975–80

Words nearby crunch time

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How to use crunch time in a sentence

When it’s crunch time, when your body is screaming at you to stop pushing, the pain of losing has to be greater than the pain of crashing the boards or diving for a loose ball one more time.
“This Didn’t End the Way It’s Supposed to End.” (Bonus)|Angela Duckworth|September 27, 2021|Freakonomics
Wriggling through the open air with all the ferocity of a running back at crunch time was a lone salmon, leaping upstream in a valiant effort to spawn.
It’s Grizzly-Viewing Season in Katmai National Park|Emily Pennington|June 24, 2021|Outside Online
The education of Tagovailoa continues, even on a night when he heads to the bench in crunch time of a must-win game.
FitzMagic strikes again as Dolphins stun Raiders, but Tua Tagovailoa remains Miami’s starter|Mark Maske|December 27, 2020|Washington Post
It’s crunch time for media companies to ditch their dependencies on third-party cookies.
‘A second chance for publishers’: How Future PLC is using first-party data to sell against high-intent audiences|Kayleigh Barber|December 21, 2020|Digiday

We’re aware of the issues with crunch time, et cetera, and diversity, I think we’re all growing and learning in those regards as we become more aware.
Sid Meier Is Here to Remind You That Life Is Full of Interesting Decisions|Alex Fitzpatrick|September 11, 2020|Time
This is crunch time for folks in the prognostication business.
Stu Rothenberg: Florida Holds Key to the Election|Howard Kurtz|November 2, 2012|DAILY BEAST
So as the negotiations slouch toward crunch time, watch for the recommendations on tax expenditures.
End the Tax-Break Scam|Michael Tomasky|May 8, 2011|DAILY BEAST

Other Idioms and Phrases with crunch time

crunch time

A period when pressure to succeed is great, often toward the end of an undertaking. For example, It's crunch time—we only have two more days to finish. This term employs crunch in the sense of “a critical situation or test.” [Slang; 1970s]

crunch time

Origin of crunch time

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