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- noun Plural form of
crux .
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Examples
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I think the pointing out of textual cruxes does not sink to the level of the Authorship Controversy.
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KD makes a personal choice based on his personal conviction and decides not spend money to support such an individual, that is the cruxes of his comment.
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The illness tends to have its own independent story line, with its own narrative cruxes: procedures, setbacks, treatments, remissions, exacerbations.
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I finished up The Eye of the World over the weekend and came across two chapters that really stand out as cruxes of the series.
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I finished up The Eye of the World over the weekend and came across two chapters that really stand out as cruxes of the series.
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I think the pointing out of textual cruxes does not sink to the level of the Authorship Controversy.
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It's one of the cruxes with the history of the northern Roman provices and should-have-been-provinces *wink* that we have so few tribal names, and what we have is corrupted by Latin spelling.
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Here is one of the cruxes of the Great Presidential Speech of 2009.
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And even at that, diving beneath the obvious surface for possible cruxes and the context of the issue, is fought like The Battle of Britain.
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There are some culture-war issues, like the fight over abortion, that are genuine moral cruxes and difficult to resolve.
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