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an elevated highway now intersects that old urban neighborhood
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Recent Examples of intersecting
Sam Sweeney, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026
From orbit, the intersecting ridges resemble a massive spiderweb sprawled across the Martian surface.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 27 Feb. 2026
Among the first studio films shot on digital video, the film uses an innovative real-time split-screen technique, with multiple cameras capturing intersecting action and storylines on a stretch of Sunset Boulevard near the beloved Book Soup (which is still there).
—Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
Four actors sit in chairs squared up to the lip of the stage and recount their intersecting lives and deaths from what seems to be the future.
—Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
Across these intersecting stories, Al-Khatib looks beyond the spectacle of war, resisting the notion that lives can be reduced to headlines and politics.
—Teresa Xie, NPR, 20 Feb. 2026
Production is currently underway on director Sam Mendes’ upcoming intersecting films on The Beatles.
—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
Spanning 13 tracks, the album navigates the complexities of the human experience through the intersecting lenses of technology and nature.
—Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 30 Jan. 2026
Turned to music, his body emerges from the ditch and now the dust is beautiful, a labyrinth of intersecting crossroads.
—Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 22 Feb. 2026
Adapting and expanding upon a lean Don Winslow novella, Layton adds many sometimes unnecessarily complex ingredients to the pot, with characters intersecting and allegiances and motivations often contradicting one another.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2026
In the middle of this spectrum, a trio of mid-career stylistic chameleons and sometime collaborators — Feid, J Balvin, and Bad Bunny — carefully map out intersecting tastes.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
Our small lives intersecting and sustaining one another.
—Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
No hills means there is no natural grade separation between the railroad and intersecting roads and footpaths.
—Ian Savage, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2026
Court records show DeFoor has faced multiple criminal cases in Hamilton County in recent years, with each proceeding intersecting with findings related to his mental competency.
—Stephen Sorace , Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 6 Jan. 2026
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
As shown, and as often happens, the lower end of the breakout range is intersecting with the 50-day moving average about 1% down from here.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
Adjective
Meanwhile, the FedEx plane continued its landing on the intersecting runway.
—Sam Sweeney, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026
From orbit, the intersecting ridges resemble a massive spiderweb sprawled across the Martian surface.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 27 Feb. 2026
Among the first studio films shot on digital video, the film uses an innovative real-time split-screen technique, with multiple cameras capturing intersecting action and storylines on a stretch of Sunset Boulevard near the beloved Book Soup (which is still there).
—Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
Four actors sit in chairs squared up to the lip of the stage and recount their intersecting lives and deaths from what seems to be the future.
—Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
Across these intersecting stories, Al-Khatib looks beyond the spectacle of war, resisting the notion that lives can be reduced to headlines and politics.
—Teresa Xie, NPR, 20 Feb. 2026
Production is currently underway on director Sam Mendes’ upcoming intersecting films on The Beatles.
—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
Spanning 13 tracks, the album navigates the complexities of the human experience through the intersecting lenses of technology and nature.
—Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 30 Jan. 2026
Turned to music, his body emerges from the ditch and now the dust is beautiful, a labyrinth of intersecting crossroads.
—Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
Verb
But faculty say the fields are broad, intersecting with health, disability studies, literature, education, information studies and public policy.
—Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 22 Feb. 2026
Adapting and expanding upon a lean Don Winslow novella, Layton adds many sometimes unnecessarily complex ingredients to the pot, with characters intersecting and allegiances and motivations often contradicting one another.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2026
In the middle of this spectrum, a trio of mid-career stylistic chameleons and sometime collaborators — Feid, J Balvin, and Bad Bunny — carefully map out intersecting tastes.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
Our small lives intersecting and sustaining one another.
—Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
No hills means there is no natural grade separation between the railroad and intersecting roads and footpaths.
—Ian Savage, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2026
Court records show DeFoor has faced multiple criminal cases in Hamilton County in recent years, with each proceeding intersecting with findings related to his mental competency.
—Stephen Sorace , Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 6 Jan. 2026
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
As shown, and as often happens, the lower end of the breakout range is intersecting with the 50-day moving average about 1% down from here.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intersecting
Adjective
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Its dealers also have non-overlapping territories, which reduces competition, according to the complaints.—
Kelli Arseneau,
jsonline.com,
26 Feb. 2026
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In the 1800s, for example, the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel used the term Zeitgeist—the spirit of times—to refer to such ubiquitous and overlapping influences that operate across both macro and micro levels.—
Maria Balaska,
Time,
20 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Back in 2017, as FIU expanded, many students were crossing Southwest Eighth Street to get to and from campus.—
Johane Saintil,
Miami Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
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The Strait of Hormuz, on the other hand, is a natural waterway, and Tehran essentially wants to charge ships for the privilege of crossing it without being bombed.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The underlying facts of the case are still to be ruled on, but the partial ruling on Friday was a big win for immigration advocates who had been fighting to shut down the controversial site.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
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The Kansas City Chiefs’ planned $3 billion stadium in Wyandotte County cleared a major hurdle on Friday, when the Kansas Legislature passed a bill creating a sports authority and renewing the underlying incentive program that will finance the megaproject.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
28 Mar. 2026
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“Intersecting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intersecting. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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