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Recent Examples of intersecting
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
The alliance is the latest way health care and artificial intelligence are rapidly intersecting.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 21 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
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
The alliance is the latest way health care and artificial intelligence are rapidly intersecting.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 21 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
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Whether in the cabin of a long-haul flight, on a research vessel in the middle of the Atlantic, or in a vehicle crossing a remote desert, travelers can expect a future of uninterrupted, gigabit-level internet that follows them across every horizon.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Mar. 2026
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The man, identified as 33-year-old Wisconsin resident James Douglas McMillan, was crossing through the Sierra Blanca checkpoint – a remote Border Patrol station about 90 miles east of El Paso – when a Border Patrol drug K-9 alerted to his car, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
4 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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But the use of chatbots — the same underlying technology that billions use for mundane tasks like writing emails — is now being used on the battlefield.—
Parmy Olson,
Mercury News,
7 Mar. 2026
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Companies like Strategy further amplify these dynamics by layering leverage on top of already volatile underlying assets.—
Mariana Trujillo,
Oc Register,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Intersecting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intersecting. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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