Thesaurus results for CRUNCH TIME

crunch time

noun

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 distinction, as Green told The Athletic earlier this week, involves which guys stand up at crunch time – the postseason, of course, being the crunchiest of crunch time – and which guys don’t. —

Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2026 The Blue Devils were up 15 at half and cruising over UConn, but as crunch time came, the wheels started to fall off for the top team in the country. —

Tyler Erzberger, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026 Vassell came up big in crunch time The sixth-year forward's jumper with four minutes left coming out of a timeout with the Spurs nursing a six-point league was perhaps the biggest bucket of the game. —

Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Mar. 2026 Friday night, at crunch time, Kel’el Ware mattered. —

Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for crunch time

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Noun

Energy security in focus The war’s disruption to the Strait of Hormuz has sharpened focus on energy security around the world and comes on the heels of the energy crisis sparked by Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 4 June 2026
The small Nordic country had applied to join the EU in 2009 in the wake of the global financial crisis, before suspending membership talks four years later.

— Sam Meredith, CNBC, 4 June 2026