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to divide by passing through or across
an elevated highway now intersects that old urban neighborhood
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Recent Examples of intersected
Was there a moment when your work as a national park volunteer and resident truly intersected with your life as an artist?
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Outside, 18 Jan. 2026
For longtime Housewives fans, the documentary promises to address what really happens inside Faith Temple and how Mary’s reality TV fame intersected with her role as First Lady of the church.
—Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 1 Jan. 2026
One tragedy had intersected with another.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2025
By uncovering ruins, artifacts, and burials, scientists can now reconstruct how different cultures, economies, and faiths intersected in Central Asia, while also preserving a unique underwater heritage site that had remained hidden for centuries.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 6 Dec. 2025
Duff’s journey into music intersected with her casting as the title middle schooler in Disney’s Lizzie McGuire, which premiered in 2001.
—Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 28 Nov. 2025
As investigators await full autopsy and toxicology results, family-court proceedings have increasingly intersected with the criminal inquiry.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
The same week, Tracee Ellis Ross intersected the trend with Alaïa’s leopard-print thong mule, while Rita Ora leaned on Gianvito Rossi’s pointed kitten pump with sheer neutral socks in London.
—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 18 Nov. 2025
These discoveries underscore the enduring historical, geological, and cultural legacy of the cave as a sacred human site where religious practices intersected with domesticity across time.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
Outside, 18 Jan. 2026
For longtime Housewives fans, the documentary promises to address what really happens inside Faith Temple and how Mary’s reality TV fame intersected with her role as First Lady of the church.
—Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 1 Jan. 2026
One tragedy had intersected with another.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2025
By uncovering ruins, artifacts, and burials, scientists can now reconstruct how different cultures, economies, and faiths intersected in Central Asia, while also preserving a unique underwater heritage site that had remained hidden for centuries.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 6 Dec. 2025
Duff’s journey into music intersected with her casting as the title middle schooler in Disney’s Lizzie McGuire, which premiered in 2001.
—Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 28 Nov. 2025
As investigators await full autopsy and toxicology results, family-court proceedings have increasingly intersected with the criminal inquiry.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
The same week, Tracee Ellis Ross intersected the trend with Alaïa’s leopard-print thong mule, while Rita Ora leaned on Gianvito Rossi’s pointed kitten pump with sheer neutral socks in London.
—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 18 Nov. 2025
These discoveries underscore the enduring historical, geological, and cultural legacy of the cave as a sacred human site where religious practices intersected with domesticity across time.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intersected
crossed
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The early investigation shows a semitruck driven by a 25-year-old man crossed into oncoming traffic and hit a Toyota sedan head-on, killing a passenger and seriously injuring the female driver, Alvarado said.—
Katie Langford,
Denver Post,
24 Jan. 2026
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According to investigators, a 50-year-old Tustin, Michigan, man was driving a pickup truck when the vehicle crossed the centerline and collided with an SUV.—
Nick Lentz,
CBS News,
24 Jan. 2026
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