crosscutting

Definition of crosscuttingnext
present participle of crosscut

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Verb
  • The map slices through Kansas City, splitting the city’s voters across three Republican-leaning districts.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2026
  • After splitting the first pair of contests, Toronto clinched the regular-season series 2-1 over Orlando.
    Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • One of the key problems is that the corporate profits tax has been weak, slicing projections by $75 million.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Brazilian tambaqui is a beefy freshwater fish that just happens to have a physique perfect for slicing into meaty, pork-like ribs.
    J.m. Hirsch, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Attributing the budget-slashing move to an overall decrease in enrollment caused by fluctuating demographics, restrictions on international students and skyrocketing tuition costs, the New School is becoming part of a trend across higher education.
    News Desk, Artforum, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Warsh has committed to slashing the Fed's balance sheet.
    Steve Liesman,Matt Peterson, CNBC, 27 Mar. 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 3 Apr. 2026.

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