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Watershed

noun

The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.

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Although the red arrival was meant to mark a watershed moment of diary-marking and tins stuffed with pads, my 28-day count soon fell by the wayside, as my periods became nothing more than an annual event.

"This was one of those moments when people from all sides of politics needed to realise that a watershed had been reached".

Alan Pardew: basking in a personal watershed moment after turning January's position – Newcastle 10th, Palace 18th – into Palace 11th, Newcastle 12th.

This is one of those watershed moments when a human evil and injustice that is part of the norm suddenly becomes questioned and challenged".

What Farage calls his "Clacton battalion" clearly think their almost-certain victory will represent a huge watershed.

Tate Modern's recent Gauguin exhibition seems to have been a watershed.

"Following a careful investigation we concluded this programme didn't break broadcasting rules, after it aired a feature called 'bondage for beginners', before the watershed," said an Ofcom spokesman.

Ofcom investigated whether the item, which aired on 3 February, was unsuitable for broadcast before the 9pm watershed.

The research found that the 9pm watershed remained key in viewers' attitudes to violence, as did the identity of the victim.

James P Lynch, a former director of BJS and current chair of the department of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Maryland, hailed Comey's complaint about the "ridiculous" state of crime stats as a watershed moment.

The watershed was the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 when, by chance, Puskas and other Hungarian internationals were on tour with Honved, the Army club into which most of them had been drafted.

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