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an elevated highway now intersects that old urban neighborhood
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Recent Examples of intersecting
Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
Beef takes off from there, laying out intersecting circles of power and competition.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
The result is a potentially perfect storm of intersecting factors that could pop the artificial intelligence industry bubble.
—Rafi Schwartz, TheWeek, 31 Mar. 2026
Such a driver, which could be from an intersecting road or a driveway, faces many sources of potential crashes.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, the FedEx plane continued its landing on the intersecting runway.
—Sam Sweeney, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026
From orbit, the intersecting ridges resemble a massive spiderweb sprawled across the Martian surface.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 27 Feb. 2026
Across these intersecting stories, Al-Khatib looks beyond the spectacle of war, resisting the notion that lives can be reduced to headlines and politics.
—Teresa Xie, NPR, 20 Feb. 2026
Spanning 13 tracks, the album navigates the complexities of the human experience through the intersecting lenses of technology and nature.
—Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 30 Jan. 2026
Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 12 May 2026
And online, orange lights are intersecting with the trend to paper lanterns.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 Apr. 2026
That makes sense, especially intersecting with Homelander’s own quasi-religious journey taking shape this season.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
Together, experts paint a picture of a sector where formal investment risks intersecting with criminal governance, armed violence and illicit supply chains.
—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
Another contributing factor to long lines is that the partial shutdown is intersecting with spring break.
—Jordan Green, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 20 Mar. 2026
Four of those lines crisscrossed the city, intersecting to allow for passengers to transfer.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Mar. 2026
But faculty say the fields are broad, intersecting with health, disability studies, literature, education, information studies and public policy.
—Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 22 Feb. 2026
Adapting and expanding upon a lean Don Winslow novella, Layton adds many sometimes unnecessarily complex ingredients to the pot, with characters intersecting and allegiances and motivations often contradicting one another.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
When it was first released in December 1980, it was seen as too weird for kids and too naive for adults, but it has since been reconsidered as a unique snapshot of intersecting talents — a strange, wonderful, one-of-a-kind movie.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
Beef takes off from there, laying out intersecting circles of power and competition.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
The result is a potentially perfect storm of intersecting factors that could pop the artificial intelligence industry bubble.
—Rafi Schwartz, TheWeek, 31 Mar. 2026
Such a driver, which could be from an intersecting road or a driveway, faces many sources of potential crashes.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, the FedEx plane continued its landing on the intersecting runway.
—Sam Sweeney, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026
From orbit, the intersecting ridges resemble a massive spiderweb sprawled across the Martian surface.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 27 Feb. 2026
Across these intersecting stories, Al-Khatib looks beyond the spectacle of war, resisting the notion that lives can be reduced to headlines and politics.
—Teresa Xie, NPR, 20 Feb. 2026
Spanning 13 tracks, the album navigates the complexities of the human experience through the intersecting lenses of technology and nature.
—Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 30 Jan. 2026
Verb
To overcome this, researchers at ETH Zurich used a subtler effect called the geometric phase, which exploits the path taken by atoms through an artificial ‘crystal of light’ built from intersecting laser beams.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 12 May 2026
And online, orange lights are intersecting with the trend to paper lanterns.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 Apr. 2026
That makes sense, especially intersecting with Homelander’s own quasi-religious journey taking shape this season.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
Together, experts paint a picture of a sector where formal investment risks intersecting with criminal governance, armed violence and illicit supply chains.
—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
Another contributing factor to long lines is that the partial shutdown is intersecting with spring break.
—Jordan Green, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 20 Mar. 2026
Four of those lines crisscrossed the city, intersecting to allow for passengers to transfer.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Mar. 2026
But faculty say the fields are broad, intersecting with health, disability studies, literature, education, information studies and public policy.
—Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 22 Feb. 2026
Adapting and expanding upon a lean Don Winslow novella, Layton adds many sometimes unnecessarily complex ingredients to the pot, with characters intersecting and allegiances and motivations often contradicting one another.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intersecting
Adjective
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There were four short docs released under the SNL50 banner, plus Questlove’s Ladies & Gentlemen…50 Years of SNL Music and Brent Hodge’s Downey Wrote That, all on Peacock and boasting myriad overlapping talking heads, filming locations and generally celebratory approaches to the beloved sketch show.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Apr. 2026
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In the past couple years, AI has permeated the music industry in several overlapping but distinct ways.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
27 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Being too patient in the build-up also allowed City to recover their shape and shut down crossing opportunities.—
Cerys Jones,
New York Times,
13 May 2026
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Beauty tourism is reshaping how people approach cosmetic care, with travelers crossing borders for everything from salmon-DNA injections in Seoul to hair transplants in Istanbul.—
Hanna Wickes,
Sacbee.com,
13 May 2026
Adjective
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There will be plenty of additional underlying hardware updates, for example a new DC to DC converter from ABB’s Brightloop.—
James Morris,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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Guilfoyle said helpful approaches include increasing enrichment and sniff-based activities on walks, providing more structured chewing opportunities, treating underlying nausea, reflux, pain or anxiety if present, and redirecting with food or toys before the dog starts grazing heavily.—
Diana Bocco,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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“Intersecting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intersecting. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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