Definition of "crises" []

• Plural form of crisis. (noun)

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• "About 80 or 90 years since the very beginning of the story of America we've seen great hinges in history -- what we call crises -- that reshape the public world, and roughly halfway in between we have what are commonly called by historians "great awakenings" where a new values regime comes in."
• "Fixing the energy crises is the least important thing if the only thing to support this argument is national security, because I am pretty sure spending 4 times the amount Bush did in a year just in Obama's first few months causes more security problems than energy."
• "So he has Pelosi and her gang write the liberal bills, and have it written and passed in crises mode so no one has time to read or understand them."