as in junctions
a place where roads meet
follow this road and take a left turn at the next intersection
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Recent Examples of intersections
Snider navigates the complex intersections of addiction with class, sexuality, masculinity, and family bonds with skilled generosity in this powerful fourth collection.
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Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Featuring women at the intersections of gender, age, disability, and disease, Pinjar is a nuanced illustration of this.
—JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
Specific projects may include a walking path on the east side of Davidson-Concord Road and improvements to multiple intersections.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 29 Oct. 2025
The setting of a raucous party allows DaCosta to thread strikingly modern musings on the intersections of race, queerness, and class into Ibsen’s classic without weighing it down.
—Abby Monteil, Them., 28 Oct. 2025
In Yaoundé, streets were quiet, shops shuttered, and armored vehicles patrolled major intersections.
—NPR, 27 Oct. 2025
That includes implementing cameras at dangerous intersections to automatically cite speeding drivers.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Along with the physical upgrades at stations and intersections, Miami-Dade will be running more buses on the busway’s express routes.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
The cameras operate by snapping photos of every car that passes through the intersections where they are based.
—Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2025
Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Featuring women at the intersections of gender, age, disability, and disease, Pinjar is a nuanced illustration of this.
—JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
Specific projects may include a walking path on the east side of Davidson-Concord Road and improvements to multiple intersections.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 29 Oct. 2025
The setting of a raucous party allows DaCosta to thread strikingly modern musings on the intersections of race, queerness, and class into Ibsen’s classic without weighing it down.
—Abby Monteil, Them., 28 Oct. 2025
In Yaoundé, streets were quiet, shops shuttered, and armored vehicles patrolled major intersections.
—NPR, 27 Oct. 2025
That includes implementing cameras at dangerous intersections to automatically cite speeding drivers.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Along with the physical upgrades at stations and intersections, Miami-Dade will be running more buses on the busway’s express routes.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
The cameras operate by snapping photos of every car that passes through the intersections where they are based.
—Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intersections
Noun
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This causes the PPy and PSS to separate into tiny regions, creating thousands of junctions where electrons and ions interact.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Oct. 2025
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Surprisingly, cognitive decline in healthy aging isn't as simple as neurons dying, but rather neurons losing their spark at the synapse, the tiny junctions where signals leap from cell to cell.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Trends develop from all corners of the world, at micro and macro scales.—
Maya Chawla,
Architectural Digest,
3 Nov. 2025
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The band’s famous tongue and lip motif is subtly placed in the top corners of the right lenses and on the temple tip.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Across the continent, irregular crossings have fallen sharply since the peaks of 2015–2016 and again since the post-pandemic rebound.—
Jonathan Portes,
Time,
29 Oct. 2025
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Saddling up with Santa Ynez Valley Horseback Rides means getting up close and personal with the Santa Ynez River, with up to four water crossings, as the horses step sure-footed through the shallows.—
Maggie Downs,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Oct. 2025
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The timing couldn’t have been better; my life was at a crossroads.—
Snigdha Poonam,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
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The war over which side gets to run the resource-rich nation that sits at the vital crossroads between North Africa, the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea has not been happening in a vacuum.—
NPR,
NPR,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Intersections.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intersections. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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