crosscutting

Definition of crosscuttingnext
present participle of crosscut

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • There’s a shaded patio out there that just begs for long, slow lunch or brunch visits, or splitting a rib-eye steak Diane at night.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The pair were arguing when the passenger punched the victim in the face, splitting his lip, cops said.
    Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • As she was seen using the cupping-style tools, Frankel appeared to bleed after slicing her face with the device.
    Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Upstairs, Polish artist and designer Zofia Sobolewska Ursic is slicing white onyx into ribbons alongside the workshop’s master technicians.
    Sarah Medford, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Earlier this year, the board voted for a debt mitigation plan that involved slashing upwards of 70 jobs, closing a historic elementary school and cutting dozens of district programs and contracts.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The company is slashing prices to course correct, but its efforts may be too little too late.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • And of course, from a more skeptical perspective, the whole project could be described as cleaving close to the wisdom of the strippers in Gypsy.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That increases a rising air motion that tends to drop shearing winds over the Atlantic that can disrupt the structure of tropical cyclones.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The plants bloom in late spring and early summer and can be encouraged to bloom again by shearing the plants back by two-thirds after the first flowers fade.
    Lynn McAlpine, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Mar. 2026
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“Crosscutting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crosscutting. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.

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