Definition of "conjuncture" [con•junc•ture]

• A combination, as of events or circumstances: "the power that lies in the conjuncture of faith and fatherland” ( Conor Cruise O'Brien). (noun)
• A critical set of circumstances; a crisis: "reports on the deteriorating world conjuncture and the disappointment of earlier hopes” ( Financial Times). (noun)

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• "There is a short-term conjuncture, with the weakness of the US banks and the strength of the Canadian dollar, that encourages banks to take over financial institutions in the United"
• ""The loss of such a man, in such a crisis; of a man who possessed so large and growing a share of the public confidence, and whose administration has recently borrowed new lustre from the crowning achievements of our armies; of a ruler whom victory was inspiring with the wise and paternal magnanimity which sought to make the conciliation as cordial as the strife has been deadly: the loss of such a President, at such a conjuncture, is an afflicting dispensation which bows a disappointed and stricken nation in sorrow more deep, sincere, and universal than ever before supplicated the compassion of pitying Heaven.""
• "Such a time and such a conjuncture was the American Revolution."