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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 intersecting
Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
The alliance is the latest way health care and artificial intelligence are rapidly intersecting.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2026
Instead, in the third and fourth episodes, the series finds what’s sympathetic in Reggie and Arthur’s intersecting desperation, and benefits from it.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 18 Jan. 2026
One of my personal favorite wardrobe hacks involves wearing knee-high boots with a midiskirt and using the intersecting hemlines to create a full-coverage look.
—Kelsey Stiegman, Glamour, 19 Dec. 2025
The city defines a through street as one where vehicles have the preferential right-of-way, and where drivers at intersecting streets must yield.
—Idaho Statesman, 17 Dec. 2025
All offer an energetic atmosphere where visitors tend to dance inside and loiter and mingle outside, among the intersecting cyberpunk-ambient streets.
—Malik Peay, Them., 15 Dec. 2025
The intersecting street was the responsibility of the city, but the traffic signals were the responsibility of the county.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
The structure itself is composed of two intersecting, circular forms, each 36 m (118 ft) wide, and elevated on slender steel columns.
—New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2025
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
The second print, a tangle of flowers intersecting with geometric stripes, adds a graphic edge.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 10 Dec. 2025
The combination of dangerous smog levels and chronic water shortages has heightened domestic tensions, with environmental stress increasingly intersecting with political and economic grievances.
—Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
Today’s programming challenges formats, platforms hybrid works, and opens conversations intersecting cinema with activism, memory, and indigenous knowledge.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Nov. 2025
The types of care proposed for the campus on Rosecrans attempt to ensure that there is a smooth ramp of services capable of intersecting with a wide range of symptom severity, from moderate anxiety to suicidal ideation.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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
The alliance is the latest way health care and artificial intelligence are rapidly intersecting.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2026
Instead, in the third and fourth episodes, the series finds what’s sympathetic in Reggie and Arthur’s intersecting desperation, and benefits from it.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 18 Jan. 2026
One of my personal favorite wardrobe hacks involves wearing knee-high boots with a midiskirt and using the intersecting hemlines to create a full-coverage look.
—Kelsey Stiegman, Glamour, 19 Dec. 2025
The city defines a through street as one where vehicles have the preferential right-of-way, and where drivers at intersecting streets must yield.
—Idaho Statesman, 17 Dec. 2025
All offer an energetic atmosphere where visitors tend to dance inside and loiter and mingle outside, among the intersecting cyberpunk-ambient streets.
—Malik Peay, Them., 15 Dec. 2025
The intersecting street was the responsibility of the city, but the traffic signals were the responsibility of the county.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
The structure itself is composed of two intersecting, circular forms, each 36 m (118 ft) wide, and elevated on slender steel columns.
—New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
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
The second print, a tangle of flowers intersecting with geometric stripes, adds a graphic edge.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 10 Dec. 2025
The combination of dangerous smog levels and chronic water shortages has heightened domestic tensions, with environmental stress increasingly intersecting with political and economic grievances.
—Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
Today’s programming challenges formats, platforms hybrid works, and opens conversations intersecting cinema with activism, memory, and indigenous knowledge.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Nov. 2025
The types of care proposed for the campus on Rosecrans attempt to ensure that there is a smooth ramp of services capable of intersecting with a wide range of symptom severity, from moderate anxiety to suicidal ideation.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intersecting
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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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Maryland's redistricting plan shifts state's 1st district on the Eastern Shore —crossing the Bay Bridge — connecting it to Anne Arundel and Howard counties.—
Janay Reece,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Those comments have been widely read in Washington as crossing a red line by appearing to de‑prioritize a president’s stated legislative priority in favor of one company’s product mix.—
Jason Brett,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Across three conversations with leaders working in human rights, social innovation, and critical infrastructure, the underlying premise was clear.—
Monica Sanders,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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The underlying allegations of this investigation are particularly fraught with danger for the state police and its leadership.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Intersecting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intersecting. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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