intersections

noun

plural of intersection
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 The City of Ceres is installing new cameras at 39 intersections as part of a nearly $2 million traffic upgrade, but the project is also raising questions about surveillance, privacy and who will have access to the footage. — Nina Burns, CBS News, 12 Nov. 2026 Many of the intersections had data from accidents in parking lots that wouldn’t have been helped by intersection improvements. — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 12 Nov. 2026 Caltrans conducted local road improvements on the project’s detour routes, including the resurfacing and striping of roads and intersections, installing traffic cameras and placing temporary traffic signals. — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026 The city Office of Emergency Management warned drivers and pedestrians to use extra caution at intersections with nonworking traffic signals. — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2026 One municipal customer of Archetype AI, for example, uses cameras across hundreds of intersections to improve pedestrian safety. — Brandon Barbello, Forbes.com, 5 Nov. 2026 Energy costs are always an important factor in elections; gas prices are the only economic indicator displayed in big bold numbers at major intersections. — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2026 Cross Traffic Assist tackles dangerous intersections Intersections are complicated places for large commercial vehicles. — New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2026 Safety and visibility along the corridor were central discussion points, with officials calling for lighting at intersections and campus drives and along the street and walkway up to Swepco Road. — Randy Moll, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intersections
  1. junctions
  2. corners
  3. crossings
  4. crossroads
Noun
  • Only a handful of trails, like The Underline, are complete, with most either in the design and construction phase or awaiting junctions to connect them into the larger network.
    — Isabel Rivera, Miami Herald, 12 Nov. 2026
  • Mainly suburbanites in the six counties of Lake, Cook, DuPage, Kane, McHenry, and Will face 45-cent toll increases, which will increase the cost of driving between open-road tolling junctions and ramp plazas by up to 90 cents or more.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of junctions
Noun
  • Huang, who resigned from his post Thursday, was the AI world’s central bank chairman and human security blanket, always there with a checkbook to backstop, acquire, hire, invest in, or otherwise underwrite the least underwritable corners of AI.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 12 Nov. 2026
  • Financial innovation could also spread that phenomenon to other corners of the developing world, concentrating even more of the world’s savings—and its financial risks—in a single currency managed by a single central bank.
    — Gordon Liao, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of corners
Noun
  • The small-boat crossings have been depicted as a crisis by politicians including Nigel Farage of the hard-right party Reform UK, and have been used as a rallying point by anti-immigration activists.
    — Jill Lawless, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Note that the park faced flooding earlier this year, so be sure to wear sturdy hiking boots, prepare for water crossings, and stay on the trails.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of crossings
Noun
  • The program meets military medics, corpsmen and service members at the crossroads of their transition, guiding them into professional health programs.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2026
  • The oil surplus has allowed the US to replenish some of its key inventories – particularly in Cushing, Oklahoma, the pipeline crossroads of America.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of crossroads

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“Intersections.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intersections. Accessed 13 Nov. 2026.

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