as in crisis
a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action
with only three minutes left in the game, it was definitely crunch time
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Recent Examples of crunch time
The Knicks’ captain shoulders the NBA’s heaviest load in crunch time.
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Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2025
Yet for the Knicks, Josh Hart ranks 67th in crunch time scoring, Karl-Anthony Towns ranks 75th, and no other player wearing orange and blue has cracked the top-100 in clutch scoring.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2025
In crunch time, especially in the semifinals and finals, anybody could easily see just how important those games were.
—Ryan Morik, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2025
With Butler now out of the fold, Herro will see the ball even more in hands, with little doubt that the ball will go through him in crunch time.
—Dj Siddiqi, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
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Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2025
Yet for the Knicks, Josh Hart ranks 67th in crunch time scoring, Karl-Anthony Towns ranks 75th, and no other player wearing orange and blue has cracked the top-100 in clutch scoring.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2025
In crunch time, especially in the semifinals and finals, anybody could easily see just how important those games were.
—Ryan Morik, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2025
With Butler now out of the fold, Herro will see the ball even more in hands, with little doubt that the ball will go through him in crunch time.
—Dj Siddiqi, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crunch time
Noun
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The combative atmosphere under the Trump administration has raised concerns among some legal experts of a potential constitutional crisis.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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Thirty-somethings have lived through two once-in-a-lifetime recessions, an unprecedented global pandemic, and several housing crises…and in spite of all that, leggings have prevailed.—
Kelsey Stiegman,
Glamour,
2 May 2025
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Now, Maineri heads into year 12 with 18 pitchers on his roster, hoping that rising junior Caleb Gilbert and sophomore-to-be Zach Hess will emerge at the top of the pitching rotation.—
John Roach,
NOLA.com,
19 July 2017
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Cal Fire representatives said the current parking mess has already impacted them because the driveway to their station enters the highway not far from the trail head.—
J. Harry Jones,
Ramona Sentinel,
19 July 2017
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Daniel: That moment occurred on the eve of the American Revolution at a time when tensions between the colonists and the crown were at a breaking point.—
Ari Daniel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Apr. 2025
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Magellan Limited/Atlantic Productions The Titanic Digital Twin shows the boilers in the hull at the breaking point of the ship.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
10 Apr. 2025
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Four years after the state’s Department of Justice entered into a settlement to improve conditions in L.A. County’s juvenile halls, frustrations are hitting a boiling point.—
James Queally,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2025
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Tensions reached a boiling point when Trump imposed a 50% tariff on Colombian exports after President Gustavo Petro refused to comply with U.S. demands to take deportees.—
Verónica Egui Brito,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2025
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This case has become a national flash point as the Trump administration ratchets up its deportation efforts and its crackdown on immigration.—
Brett Samuels,
The Hill,
18 Apr. 2025
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Gender dynamics became a flash point: Danes see themselves as pioneers for equality, while many new arrivals came from traditional Muslim societies where women often did not work outside the home and girls could not always decide when and whom to marry.—
Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Crunch time.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crunch%20time. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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