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
Podrabinek captures the painful intersections between personal and political in a dissident’s life, and the solidarity that kept the resistance moving forward.
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Literary Hub, 10 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, 10 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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Celebrity makeup artist Michael Anthony accentuated her under eyes using a brightening concealer and kissed the faintest shade of pink to her outer corners next to long lash extensions that reached her brows.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
10 Nov. 2025
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At the memorial, at least in some corners, she was being received with reverence.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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This will require more than just Israel opening all border crossings.—
Catherine Russell,
Time,
3 Nov. 2025
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Trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan has ground to a halt as major border crossings remain closed.—
NPR,
NPR,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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New York is a crossroads for them at the edge of the continent, like a traffic circle with east-west routes running along the ocean or north-south routes going up the harbor or to New Jersey.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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The crossroads sustainable fashion now finds itself at could rebalance trust in green claims, giving companies with less genuine impact investment an easy way out, Allweiss says, and making space for the truly committed to step up and be properly acknowledged.—
Bella Webb,
Vogue,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Intersections.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intersections. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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