as in to cross
to divide by passing through or across
an elevated highway now intersects that old urban neighborhood
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Recent Examples of intersect
At Techfest 2025, a humanoid robot unexpectedly joined that cultural moment, reinforcing how robotics now intersects with popular media.
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 Dec. 2025
Optical atomic clocks, which use intersecting laser beams to entrap and monitor the atoms, are currently accurate down to 1 attosecond, or a billionth of a billionth of a second.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Dec. 2025
One tragedy had intersected with another.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2025
When the Earth intersects the comet's orbit, the debris left by the comet burns up in the Earth's atmosphere, creating bright streaks of light in the night sky known as meteors or shooting stars, according to Earth Sky.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 Dec. 2025
Optical atomic clocks, which use intersecting laser beams to entrap and monitor the atoms, are currently accurate down to 1 attosecond, or a billionth of a billionth of a second.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Dec. 2025
One tragedy had intersected with another.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2025
When the Earth intersects the comet's orbit, the debris left by the comet burns up in the Earth's atmosphere, creating bright streaks of light in the night sky known as meteors or shooting stars, according to Earth Sky.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intersect
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For a president to tamper with the Fed is to cross a red line — to welcome panic and potential doom.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
13 Jan. 2026
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The driver that struck Riddles has not been charged with any crimes for the crash, which happened as Riddles tried to cross the road in an area that wasn't marked with a crosswalk.—
Zach Boetto,
CBS News,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Intersect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intersect. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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