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as in intersection
a place where two or more things are united
situated at the junction of several major railways, the city has long been a transportation hub
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as in merging
the act or an instance of joining two or more things into one
the junction of the coalition's two military forces has not been without problems
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as in corner
a place where roads meet
the town finally installed a traffic light at that busy junction
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Recent Examples of junction
The stakes of the story become ever more human-on-human, with zombies largely relegated to one epic battle that sits at the cinematic junction of western, medieval and samurai.
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Mike Hale, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
At the 1-mile mark, hikers will reach the junction with the Mesa Trail.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
The human body has many joints, which are essentially bone and muscle junctions held together with ligaments.
—Matt Parrott, Arkansas Online, 20 Apr. 2025
The signals are then received by intricate, branched filaments called dendrites and the junctions at which these structures connect are called synapses.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2025
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Mike Hale, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
At the 1-mile mark, hikers will reach the junction with the Mesa Trail.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
The human body has many joints, which are essentially bone and muscle junctions held together with ligaments.
—Matt Parrott, Arkansas Online, 20 Apr. 2025
The signals are then received by intricate, branched filaments called dendrites and the junctions at which these structures connect are called synapses.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for junction
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The two-vehicle crash happened around 5:15 p.m. April 20 at the intersection of West 143rd and King streets, Overland Park police said.—
Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
21 May 2025
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In one of them, which was posted last June and found to be filmed on Bear Rock Road in Durham, the driver of a Ferrari can be seen slowing to about 8 mph at the intersection of Higganum Road before allegedly accelerating to 77 mph in a 30 mph residential zone, the warrant affidavit said.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
21 May 2025
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Even at a modest warm-up pace, Feeling the chassis turn-in to corners, modulating the brakes, and letting the mighty S52 pull me out of corner-exit with assured low-end torque was quite smile-inducing.—
Peter Nelson,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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This street corner was forever altered on May 25, 2020, when Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes, suffocating and killing him.—
Meg Anderson,
NPR,
23 May 2025
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The Shoreline plan also comes at a critical juncture for Virginia Key, the 1,000-acre island that’s bisected by the Rickenbacker and split between City of Miami and county jurisdiction.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
23 May 2025
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According to Bloomberg, there's a growing sense that Trump's efforts to broker a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia are reaching a critical juncture.—
Isabel van Brugen,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 May 2025
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This is especially true with Mars charging up your intimate eighth house of mergers and emotional bonds, while in harmony with Venus in your fourth house of innermost feelings.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
22 May 2025
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The merger includes io’s brain trust of more than 50 employees.—
Tor Constantino,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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That’s because prior to its 1861 unification, the Italian peninsula was fragmented into several kingdoms, duchies, and city-states, each with its landscape, culture, food, and grapes.—
Lauren Mowery,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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Taiwan also deported three Chinese immigrants for voicing their support online for unification through military action.—
Stephanie Yang,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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The Federal Circuit granted both the consolidation and a temporary stay of the injunction.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
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Its takeover is set to drive further consolidation in the software-as-a-service industry and may attract regulatory scrutiny.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
28 May 2025
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Liza Minnelli's Life in Photos, from Performing with Mom Judy Garland to Earning an EGOT But along the way, Minnelli had an A-list coupling with the Tony Award-winning stage and screen legend Ben Vereen.—
Jeremy Helligar,
People.com,
25 Jan. 2025
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There are other mysteries the researchers hope their dataset will help to crack — for example, the odd phenomenon known as inter-hemispheric coupling, first observed in the late 2000s.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
21 Jan. 2025
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Three other conspirators, Eddie Ashley, Shane Hoskins and Andre Butts, were previously arrested and reached plea deals in connection with the scheme.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
21 May 2025
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Sutherland, of Colonie, New York, was arrested on Jan. 27 in connection to the plot, said U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
21 May 2025
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“Junction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junction. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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