as in intersecting
to divide by passing through or across
the infamous concrete wall that once bisected the city of Berlin, Germany
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Recent Examples of bisecting
For the quintessential Glacier National Park visit, take the Going-to-the-Sun Road for 50 miles of stunning vistas, bisecting the east and west sides of the park.
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Giovanna Caravetta, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2026
Valley Fair, located on Stevens Creek Boulevard, sits both in San Jose and Santa Clara, with the city border bisecting the property.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
The waterway bisecting the city was converted to a giant storm drain nearly a century ago to contain flood waters.
—Emma Bowman, NPR, 17 Nov. 2025
Perhaps the most intriguing thing shown here are the tracks bisecting Park Street.
—Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025
On May 6, the sun began shining on the south side and the rings reappeared, albeit as nothing more than a thin bright line bisecting Saturn's disk.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Giovanna Caravetta, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2026
Valley Fair, located on Stevens Creek Boulevard, sits both in San Jose and Santa Clara, with the city border bisecting the property.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
The waterway bisecting the city was converted to a giant storm drain nearly a century ago to contain flood waters.
—Emma Bowman, NPR, 17 Nov. 2025
Perhaps the most intriguing thing shown here are the tracks bisecting Park Street.
—Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025
On May 6, the sun began shining on the south side and the rings reappeared, albeit as nothing more than a thin bright line bisecting Saturn's disk.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bisecting
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Together, experts paint a picture of a sector where formal investment risks intersecting with criminal governance, armed violence and illicit supply chains.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
9 Apr. 2026
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The most precise atomic clocks trap atoms in an optical lattice, a pattern of light and dark formed by intersecting lasers.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Apr. 2026
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This time, the neutrinos seemed to be changing fast enough to oscillate while crossing a room.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Apr. 2026
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Later, grandmother and granddaughter drive down a road of African palm trees, passing a lorry load of immigrants, monotonous electricity grid lines crossing the sky and workers fumigating trees, Villalobos accumulating details of a harsh contemporary world.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Bisecting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bisecting. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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