as in to cross
to divide by passing through or across
an elevated highway now intersects that old urban neighborhood
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The studio was founded in 1912 by Thomas Ince, a producer-director and mogul during the silent film era, built where Sunset Boulevard now intersects the Pacific Coast Highway.
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Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Jan. 2025
Managing the risks In areas such as copyright law, fears about massive copying by LLMs have been overblown, according to Kevin Smith, director of libraries at Colby College, but AI’s evolution does intersect with core privacy concerns.
—Kevin Williams, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2025
Intersectionality—a term coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw—reminds us that race, ethnicity, age, ability and other identities intersect to create unique experiences of discrimination.
—Aniela Unguresan, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Since then, however, his range of holdings, which include extensive urban real estate development in the state, tens of millions in technology investments as well as oil and gas leases, intersected with his policy decisions as governor, a New York Times review has found.
—Alexandra Berzon, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Jan. 2025
Managing the risks In areas such as copyright law, fears about massive copying by LLMs have been overblown, according to Kevin Smith, director of libraries at Colby College, but AI’s evolution does intersect with core privacy concerns.
—Kevin Williams, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2025
Intersectionality—a term coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw—reminds us that race, ethnicity, age, ability and other identities intersect to create unique experiences of discrimination.
—Aniela Unguresan, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Since then, however, his range of holdings, which include extensive urban real estate development in the state, tens of millions in technology investments as well as oil and gas leases, intersected with his policy decisions as governor, a New York Times review has found.
—Alexandra Berzon, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Intersect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intersect. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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