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Preposition
This shift comes as the administration dismantles numerous diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives across the federal government.—Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 16 June 2025 Reactions to the news varied across social media platforms.—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2025
Adverb
The budget also moves the Giant Magellan Telescope, which would boast starlight-gathering mirrors totaling more than 25 meters across, into a final design phase.—Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 3 June 2025 Transverse describes something that is lying across, and leukonychia is a term for white discoloration of the nail.2
Mees' lines take about three to six weeks to develop.—Laura Schober, Health, 1 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for across
Since then, the conversation around intimacy coördinators has grown spikier.
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Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
When a match goes really well — i.e. when the couple gets engaged, the ballyhooed happy ending of all romances, naturally — a bar cart is rolled out and all the young matchmakers gather around each other and cheer for their good fortune, and for the seeming success of love itself.
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