as in to intersect
to divide by passing through or across
the infamous concrete wall that once bisected the city of Berlin, Germany
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Pine Avenue Starting at the north end sits the city of Anna Maria anchored by Pine Avenue, Bean's original sand-and-seashell main street that bisects the island.
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Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024
Roughly 15 million people—one-third of Ukraine’s population—live between the Dnieper River, which bisects the country, and the Russian border.
—John Mearsheimer, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014
At the outset, the sets designed by Leslie Travers and stage director Caroline Clegg brought home the horrors of war as characters in period dress streamed in through the aisles to take their place in a bomb shelter bisected on the floor by the map of the River Mersey.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 19 July 2024
The idea is to reunite the two areas of greenery bisected by Wilshire.
—Bruce Haring, Deadline, 10 July 2024
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Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024
Roughly 15 million people—one-third of Ukraine’s population—live between the Dnieper River, which bisects the country, and the Russian border.
—John Mearsheimer, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014
At the outset, the sets designed by Leslie Travers and stage director Caroline Clegg brought home the horrors of war as characters in period dress streamed in through the aisles to take their place in a bomb shelter bisected on the floor by the map of the River Mersey.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 19 July 2024
The idea is to reunite the two areas of greenery bisected by Wilshire.
—Bruce Haring, Deadline, 10 July 2024
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