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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.
Don't Fish With Commies Tim Romano 2008
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The illness tends to have its own independent story line, with its own narrative cruxes: procedures, setbacks, treatments, remissions, exacerbations.
After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010
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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.
The Eye Closes and Loial Friends Meet RobB 2010
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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.
Archive 2010-01-01 RobB 2010
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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.
Iago Gwynedd Carla 2010
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Here is one of the cruxes of the Great Presidential Speech of 2009.
Mayhill Fowler: Did President Obama Bend History in Oslo? 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.
The comics, balloon boy and as ignorant as we want to be. 2009
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There are some culture-war issues, like the fight over abortion, that are genuine moral cruxes and difficult to resolve.
Hard Right 2007
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