across from

phrase

: on the opposite side from (someone or something)
She sat (directly) across from me at the table.
The restaurant is (just) across from the high school.

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An unidentified woman wearing sunglasses and a face covering made her way down 7th Avenue behind the media pen across from Madison Square Garden. Bryan West, USA Today, 4 July 2026 Assuming that Jarell Quansah and Reece James are not ready after injuries, maybe the safest option is to move Ezri Konsa across from central defence. Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 4 July 2026 El Paso sits in a verdant opening between arid mountains at the westernmost tip of Texas, at a place where the Rio Grande often runs shallow enough to wade across from Ciudad Juárez, its twin city in Mexico. Julia Preston, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026 Most of the statue was melted down and reformed into musket balls, and several of these are on display in the opening section of the show across from four large intact pieces of the original. Cat Dawson, ARTnews.com, 3 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for across from

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“Across from.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/across%20from. Accessed 16 Jul. 2026.

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