crux

Devlin says that forming Annie's character was about trying to understand why she decided to become an officer and "for that to be the crux of her story".

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The crux of the players’ argument is that they were missing an opportunity—and a payday—afforded to athletes before and after them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Last year, with her second LP “The Art of Loving,” Dean became the latest British woman to earn global fame at the crux of old-soul balladry and modern pop panache.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Her lawyer pledges to keep fighting and a bipartisan bill aims to amend the parts of the tax code at the crux of the case.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

He left an unfinished reply to Wotton when he died in 1699—missing was the discussion of science which needed to be the crux of his argument.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

These sorts of cruces always are to 224 me the most insoluble, and I should not wonder if D.B. stuck there for a week or two.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Andrew Lang

This is one of the textual cruces of the play.

From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black

Then after a page or two we come to the chief cruces of Moore's pathetic and of his comic manner, "The Last Rose of Summer," "The Young May Moon," and "The Minstrel Boy."

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury

The sterility of hybrids has been always considered one of the great cruces in connection with any theory of Evolution. 

From Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals by Samuel Butler

In "Memories and Portraits," Stevenson says: "A good serious play must be founded on one of the passionate cruces of life, where duty and inclination come nobly to the grapple."

From Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page

One of the cruxes of sleep hygiene is consistency.

From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2022

That’s why Rana’s lawsuit cruxes on Amazon’s algorithms, apps, and devices that Amazon uses to micromanage its workers.

From The Verge ● Nov. 14, 2021

The students’ argument in court, which is a part of the Xiaocheng Cup Public Welfare Litigation Competition, cruxes on this premise.

From The Verge ● Oct. 27, 2021

His ferociously annotated versions of the Pentateuch and of the Psalms chaperone the Hebrew-less reader through many dense cruxes.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016

Some of these cruxes, Sir Walter tells us, could not be solved by the examiner, and were laid before Boz himself, with a copy of the questions. 

From Pickwickian Studies by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald