Antonyms for crux
krʌks; ˈkru sizcrux

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1. Cruxnoun

   Synonyms:
   Southern Cross

2. cruxnoun

   A distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross. It appears in the flags of several countries in Oceania.

   The crux of her argument was that the roadways needed repair before anything else could be accomplished.

   Synonyms:
   Southern Cross

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1. • Constellation
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1. Southern Cross, Crux, Crux Australisnoun

   a small conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere in the Milky Way near Centaurus

   Synonyms:
   crux of the matter

2. crux, crux of the matternoun

   the most important point

   Synonyms:
   crux of the matter

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1. cruxnoun

   Synonyms:
   puzzle, riddle

How to use crux in a sentence?

1. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang:

   It is true that the current China-Japan relationship is in difficulty, the crux of the issue is how the war and that part of history are viewed.

2. Jerry Brown:

   The crux of the matter is whether the state of California should continue to make it a crime for a dying person to end his life.

3. Leila Cobo:

   Right in the crux of 1999, 2000, it was a very unusual time where you had five extraordinary artists coming out at the same time, which is not common, there was a bit of accident, a bit of planning... All the pieces came together.

4. Randy Credico:

   This is the crux of it, bringing Margaret Kunstler into it.

5. Wang Yiwei:

   The crux is how to let North Korea denuclearise and to give it security guarantees. On this, the United States and North Korea don't have trust, so China has to act as a bridge.

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