crisis

A crisis is a critical turning point or period of intense difficulty and instability that demands urgent decision-making and action to prevent severe negative consequences.

Observed surface forms (10)

• Ebola virus disease outbreak ×2
• hostage crisis ×2
• influenza pandemic ×2
• pre–World War I crisis ×2
• European political crisis ×1
• automotive industry crisis ×1
• crisis of the papacy ×1
• existential crisis ×1
• global health crisis ×1
• public health crisis ×1

Instances (16)

• 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic via concept surface "influenza pandemic"
• 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak via concept surface "Ebola virus disease outbreak"
• U.S. auto industry crisis of 2008–2010 via concept surface "automotive industry crisis"
• 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo via concept surface "Ebola virus disease outbreak"
• noögenic neurosis via concept surface "existential crisis"
• Iranian Embassy siege via concept surface "hostage crisis"
• Munich massacre via concept surface "hostage crisis"
• Flint water crisis via concept surface "public health crisis"
• COVID-19 pandemic via concept surface "global health crisis"
• Crisis of the Third Century
• Western Schism via concept surface "crisis of the papacy"
• Eurozone crisis via concept surface "European political crisis"
• 1918 influenza pandemic via concept surface "influenza pandemic"
• Time of Troubles
• First Moroccan Crisis via concept surface "pre–World War I crisis"
• Second Moroccan Crisis via concept surface "pre–World War I crisis"