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What is a turning point?

What is a turning point? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A decisive point at which a significant change or historical event occurs, or at which a decision must be made.
  2. (calculus) A maximum or minimum on a graph.
  3. A crossroads.
  4. A T-junction.
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She leaves a suicide note, whose contents are held back until an appropriately melodramatic turning point.
The author suggests that by summer 1998 there had been a turning point, and a more confident Commission had come of age.
The key turning point arrives during a long sequence of Paul learning to climb the rock face of an intimidating cliff.
What appeared to be the turning point for him was when he failed to turn up for a World Cup qualifying match in Albania.
He stopped and chatted and spoke of how this hard-won point just might be the kick-start Rangers need, the turning point in their woeful season.
The big turning point for me was when I was taking my finals and I felt so anxious and nervous.

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