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means A crucial turning point where things could get much better or much worse, and a decision can't be put off any longer.

from From Greek 'krisis,' meaning a decision or judgment, rooted in the verb 'krinein,' to separate or decide. Its earliest serious job was in Greek medicine, where it named the exact point in a disease when the patient would either recover or die — the fever breaking or breaking them. From there it spread into everyday language for any decisive, high-stakes moment, carrying that old medical urgency along with it.