crosscut

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Recent Examples of crosscut Next, crosscut the parts to the dimensions shown in the drawing. Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2022 First, crosscut the 8-ft-long strip into two 32 1/8-inch long pieces. Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023 The divide between conservatives and progressives is crosscut by those who want the courts to retain their authority over constitutional meaning and those who do not. Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023 The scene is crosscut with Alicent copulating with the King—disinterestedly and out of duty. Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 12 Sep. 2022 See All Example Sentences for crosscut
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crosscut
Verb
  • Satomi followed her 11-year-old friend to a nearby study room, where — after drawing the curtains — the girl slit Satomi’s throat with a box cutter and kicked her in the head and sides, The Washington Post reported.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 15 June 2025
  • Then, the family members would drag their victim to a hidden cellar on the property and slit the victim’s throat, leaving them there to die.
    Sean Neumann, People.com, 1 June 2025
Verb
  • Plaid’s bank partnerships avoided years of licensing; TSMC’s $20B chip R&D was split with Apple/NVIDIA.
    Sahar Hashmi, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Read more Climate Change New Microsoft AI Research Edges Towards 'Medical Superintelligence' Nuclear fusion differs from fission, or splitting atoms, which is how nuclear power is generated today.
    Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
Verb
  • Most of these pristine hailstones go directly to a cold lab in Colorado, where they are sliced with a hot wire band saw.
    Seth Borenstein, Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2025
  • The pair later sliced into a two-tiered wedding cake topped with fresh grapes and figs.
    Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 23 June 2025
Verb
  • Trump also suggested that the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE — the cost-cutting division unpopular among Americans that Musk led before exiting the administration in late May — might consider slashing incentives that Musk’s companies receive from the U.S. government.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 1 July 2025
  • Norms are being shattered, aid budgets for the poorest and most vulnerable are being slashed, and for the first time in a generation, extreme poverty has been on the rise.
    Michael Sheldrick, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Verb
  • The white shark sheared the striped bass in half, and then quickly took off.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 3 June 2025
  • The California coast typically benefits from cooler water that flows southward along the coast and winds that tend to either shear the tops off hurricanes or push them westward away from the coast.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 16 May 2025
Verb
  • And, Roman says, a vital support system was ripped away: public services.
    Meg Anderson, NPR, 30 June 2025
  • Meanwhile, boats all along the southwest shore were being swamped or ripped from their moorings and piling up on rocks or beaches, often crashing into other vessels.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2025
Verb
  • The prospect of trying to cut open a stubborn 5-4-1 block in the Orlando heat could have become torturous quite quickly.
    Liam Tharme, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • According to a report on Bloomberg, MSFT is planning to cut thousands of jobs in its Xbox gaming division.
    MoneyShow, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • At its base definition, scissoring is just about genital-to-genital stimulation, so anyone interested in doing so can scissor.
    Adejoke Mason, Them, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Sizzle highlighted above, there are a lot of assumptions around who can scissor.
    Adejoke Mason, Them, 3 Dec. 2024

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“Crosscut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crosscut. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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