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Normally, such cross talk is seen as interference, which radios are designed to suppress—especially digital radios with their error-correcting schemes and inherent resistance to low-level noise.
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Ana I. Pérez-Neira,
IEEE Spectrum,
7 Apr. 2026
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Ana I. Pérez-Neira,
IEEE Spectrum,
7 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for cross talk
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cross talk
Noun
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All the monsters can go away now or just go hiding under the bed where they’ll conveniently be forgotten amid the coming happy talk for the next eight months.
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There is a lot of happy talk about working together to expand the pie, but the word competition keeps bumping up against the word collaboration.
Noun
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This came after an exchange of fire in previous days between the US and Iran.
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The district countered with an offer of several months pay in exchange for giving up the right to indemnification, the sources said.
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“Cross talk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cross%20talk. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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