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Recent Examples of crosscutNo longer was the audience in its familiar seat of omniscient spectator, denying the editor the ability to crosscut and seamlessly switch perspectives across the action.—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 17 Jan. 2025 The story crosscut feverishly between the two, giving rise to a ticklishly clever chicken-or-egg conundrum: Was Riley being manipulated, like a puppet, by her confused and unruly emotions?—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024 Stack two of the 11¾-inch rips and crosscut them to 33 inches long (photo 2).—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 24 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
Using sharp paring knife, cut four 1 1/2-inch long slits in top of dough (think of a clock for slit placement at 12,3,6,9 positions).
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Cathy Thomas,
Oc Register,
13 Oct. 2025
Someone slit his throat and bashed him over the head in Skulls Rainbow Room, which sits in Printers Alley, one of the most popular destinations in Nashville.
And still, given that Spurs’ creative issues persist and Monaco peppered Vicario’s goal with 23 shots, seemingly slicing through a defence which had previously looked so secure with ease, Tottenham escaped with another away point.
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Elias Burke,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
Their home had backed up to a 300-acre farm that’s now been sliced into subdivisions.
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Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Oct. 2025
Milei’s Odds Milei, elected in 2023 on a platform of radical libertarian reforms, has pushed austerity measures that have slashed public spending, ended central bank money printing and brought inflation down from 211 percent to roughly 32 percent in under a year.
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Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Oct. 2025
Watching Michael Myers stalk and slash his way through the streets of Haddonfield is always a scary good time, but there's something about queuing up the Halloween movies in October that just hits different (especially on the namesake holiday itself).
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Chris Snellgrove,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Oct. 2025
Some of these mountainsides have dislodged themselves deep in the bedrock, causing the face of a mountain to shear clean off — as has happened at least twice in the last two years.
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Ella Nilsen,
CNN Money,
22 Oct. 2025
Moreover, plastic pulverization produces fine solids; keeping the enzyme in contact with all surfaces without shearing it to inactivity is an active research topic.
Congressional Democrats have been eagerly drawing that contrast in recent days, ripping Trump for going abroad amid a crisis at home.
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Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
26 Oct. 2025
Heard blitzed off the edge and arrived at running back Jamal Roberts at the same time as the ball, ripping it away for a turnover at midfield that led to the game-winning drive, capped by Pavia’s short touchdown run.
Overall, the inflation data likely add fuel to expectations that the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by another quarter percentage point at its policy meeting later this month - its second consecutive cut.
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NPR,
NPR,
25 Oct. 2025
Superstar Shohei Ohtani launched a two-run shot to cut the lead down to 11-4, but the momentum still appeared to be on the Blue Jays' side in a raucous Rogers Centre.
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