How to Use crux in a Sentence

crux

noun

• Maintainance of furniture is the crux of this business.
  — Itika Sharma Punit, Quartz India, 29 Aug. 2019
• According to Mattocks, who's scored twice this year, that's at the crux of the problem.
  — Pat Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 23 July 2019
• Climate change and its impact on our food system is a complicated issue, but here are a few things at the crux of it.
  — NBC News, 26 Aug. 2019
• That jolt awake at 3 a.m. has become Harris’ campaign theme, the crux of her wandering stump speech.
  — Molly Ball, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
• The crux of the crypto lobby’s pitch is that the bitcoin network is completely decentralized and open to anyone to join.
  — Joe Lightbloomberg, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019
• In fact, the crux of his argument for Medicare-for-all is getting rid of the private health care industry’s influence.
  — Tara Golshan, Vox, 17 July 2019
• The crux of the law will allow players to profit off their name, likeness and image, which is currently against NCAA rules.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 8 Oct. 2019
• Waystar’s efforts to mitigate the fallout from the article and see the PMG acquisition through form the crux of this week’s episode.
  — Rey Mashayekhi, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2019
• The benefits of a breakup The crux of it is that Google’s core search business is so profitable that the rest of Alphabet’s many subsidiaries are freeloading off it.
  — Adam Seessel, Fortune, 26 July 2019
• Both note that theorists modeling galaxy evolution must still rely on approximate models of star formation, which lie at the crux of the issue.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 7 Aug. 2019
• The crux of the problem is that rather than value its investments in fighting legal cases at cost, as some of its peers do, Burford uses an approach known as fair value accounting.
  — Chris Bryant | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
• Payne flits between the two cataclysms, first with slow precision, and then, as the cruxes approach, back and forth cinematically, the borders showing some slippage.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
• Medical exemptions are at the crux of some of the most contentious arguments over how vaccination requirements should work, and more precisely who should be vaccinated in the first place.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 26 Aug. 2019
• At the crux of the story is the team’s coach, Rick Prinz.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2021
• The crux of the matter is the moral status of the police.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 22 June 2021
• Keep your eye on the cars, that’s the crux of the entire matter.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• This is the crux of how to stop lashing out in the moment.
  — Jelena Kecmanovic, CNN, 12 July 2022
• That’s the crux of why Chastain is so good in this role.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 19 Sep. 2021
• And those questions of who has the right to tell the story is at the crux of our show.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2022
• Such a frenzy can take away from the crux of the story.
  — Morgan Sung, NBC News, 15 July 2022
• To be able to take that, process it, and then move forward — that's the whole crux of it.
  — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2023
• The crux of the case centered on whether the baby had been born alive or not.
  — Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 4 Nov. 2020
• In particular, the crux of the case is found in Nos. 2, 3 and 4.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Mar. 2022
• But the real action, the crux of things, is there in the database.
  — Paul Ford, Wired, 18 Aug. 2020
• This is, to me, the crux of the issue over soccer’s future.
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2022
• And here, to me, is the crux of the matter: What is the role of technology in medicine?
  — Ethan J. Weiss, STAT, 21 Feb. 2020
• But pleasing them isn’t at the crux of her push to conserve more.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Oct. 2021
• What does that tell you about what's really at the crux of this?
  — NBC News, 28 Mar. 2021
• Fagen has previously canceled concerts due to illness and is the sole crux of Steely Dan following the death of Walter Becker in 2017 — with a virtuosic group of musicians and singers backing him every night.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2023
• The thematic chart-topper becomes the narrative crux heavily featured throughout the 10-episode musical miniseries.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 13 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024