crisscrossed

verb

past tense of crisscross
as in intersected

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  1. intersected
  2. crossed
  3. bisected
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  • The two families’ lives intersected once again in their dedication to fight for independence for the Baltic states in the early 1960s.
    — Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026
  • From 2021 to 2022, NFT trading intersected with the contemporary art world most dramatically at major auction houses.
    — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of intersected
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  • The annual domestic box office crossed the $8 billion mark on Friday and is up over 19% from last year.
    — Lindsey Bahr, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
  • If the car or truck was rented in one state, set to return in another state and crossed into Mexico via a third, the coordination required between three state law enforcement agencies can make timely recovery of the vehicle even more complicated.
    — Steve Fisher Special Correspondent Follow, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026
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  • The building’s three lower floors, including a ground-floor shop, caved in before dawn in the district of Maltepe, on the Asian side of Istanbul, a city that is bisected by the Bosporus Strait.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • That has severely disrupted daily life in Ukraine’s largest city, which, like much of the country, is bisected by the broad Dnipro River.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of bisected
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“Crisscrossed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crisscrossed. Accessed 16 Oct. 2026.

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