Thesaurus results for INTERSECTION

intersection

noun

ˌin-tər-ˈsek-shən

Definition of intersection

as in junction

a place where roads meet follow this road and take a left turn at the next intersection

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Recent Examples of intersection After a night spent celebrating his birthday, Martinez approached a busy intersection, where a car crash had taken place hours earlier. — Juliana Kim, NPR, 22 July 2026 When officers arrived, the man had moved up the street near the intersection of Sungate and Silkwood, still holding a knife, the department said. — Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2026 After the red paint disappeared, the curbs blended back into the concrete, leaving drivers to determine whether parking was allowed under a new California law aimed at improving visibility at intersections. — Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026 Capturing this intersection is important to Adidas because the two are no longer separate in the mind of today’s consumer. — Kanika Talwar, Footwear News, 22 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for intersection

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Noun

To maximize efficiency, a complex triple-junction solar cell was made by stacking three perovskite absorbers with varying band gaps.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 July 2026
The work still got done, but a person stood at every junction—checking, clicking and reconciling.

— Rahul Bhatia, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

Definition of junction

Noun

That convergence is drawing together businesses that once occupied separate corners of the market, from consumer staples companies selling food to biotech firms developing medicines and veterinary providers offering increasingly sophisticated care.

— Elsa Ohlen,Carolin Roth, CNBC, 18 July 2026
Tickets in the corners of the upper deck were listed for nearly $10,000.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026

Definition of corner

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The Big Bend Sector has not experienced the high number of border crossings seen in recent years in other areas farther south along the Rio Grande or in Arizona or California, owing to the remote and challenging terrain on both sides of the border.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026
Iran struck multiple oil tankers over the past couple days, slowing strait traffic to just a handful of crossings – down from roughly 50 to 70 per day shortly after Iran and the United States signed their Memorandum of Understanding in mid-June.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 22 July 2026

Definition of crossing

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