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
Runners will finish near the intersection of Washington Street and Capitol Avenue.
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Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 7 Nov. 2025
Video shared by police shows a mix of motorcycles, scooters and ATVs blocking an intersection.
—Adam Sabes , Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Officers deployed a spike strip near the intersection of Bell Road and Stewarts Ferry Pike and arrested the suspect.
—Gabrielle Chenault, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Nov. 2025
Lao was struck dead by a driver Sunday night at the intersection of Marysville and Del Paso boulevards in North Sacramento.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 6 Nov. 2025
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Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 7 Nov. 2025
Video shared by police shows a mix of motorcycles, scooters and ATVs blocking an intersection.
—Adam Sabes , Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Officers deployed a spike strip near the intersection of Bell Road and Stewarts Ferry Pike and arrested the suspect.
—Gabrielle Chenault, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Nov. 2025
Lao was struck dead by a driver Sunday night at the intersection of Marysville and Del Paso boulevards in North Sacramento.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 6 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intersection
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Each junction behaves slightly differently, forming a complex 3D network that is impossible to exactly replicate.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Oct. 2025
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Canal supporters identified the break in the Appalachian Mountains at the junction of the Mohawk River and the Hudson as a propitious place to dig a channel to Lake Erie.—
Christine Keiner,
The Conversation,
15 Oct. 2025
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The 2026 World Cup is right around the corner, and anticipation for the biggest event in sports is building rapidly.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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So, the Carter and Alexander deals once again called DeJean’s status into question — especially since Carter is primarily a slot corner.—
Brooks Kubena,
New York Times,
5 Nov. 2025
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Today, as Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer for Sony Music Group, a grown up Warren finds herself at a crossroads similar to those early days.—
Essence,
Essence,
10 Nov. 2025
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Funny, though, that this movie could be viewed as the flip side of Causeway, a quiet drama that’s also about a woman at a crossroads who snaps out of her inertia thanks to meeting a kindly stranger.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
8 Nov. 2025
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And though that crossing wasn’t a success, her Oyster, with its gilt pink dial and octagonal case, still cemented its place in history.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
11 Nov. 2025
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Since Brightline began running trains in Florida in 2017, 193 people have been struck and killed, most of them pedestrians who were not at official crossings, according to a Miami Herald/WLRN investigation.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Intersection.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intersection. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.
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