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to divide by passing through or across
an elevated highway now intersects that old urban neighborhood
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Recent Examples of intersecting
Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 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
Turned to music, his body emerges from the ditch and now the dust is beautiful, a labyrinth of intersecting crossroads.
—Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
The alliance is the latest way health care and artificial intelligence are rapidly intersecting.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2026
Instead, in the third and fourth episodes, the series finds what’s sympathetic in Reggie and Arthur’s intersecting desperation, and benefits from it.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 18 Jan. 2026
One of my personal favorite wardrobe hacks involves wearing knee-high boots with a midiskirt and using the intersecting hemlines to create a full-coverage look.
—Kelsey Stiegman, Glamour, 19 Dec. 2025
The city defines a through street as one where vehicles have the preferential right-of-way, and where drivers at intersecting streets must yield.
—Idaho Statesman, 17 Dec. 2025
All offer an energetic atmosphere where visitors tend to dance inside and loiter and mingle outside, among the intersecting cyberpunk-ambient streets.
—Malik Peay, Them., 15 Dec. 2025
Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2026
In the middle of this spectrum, a trio of mid-career stylistic chameleons and sometime collaborators — Feid, J Balvin, and Bad Bunny — carefully map out intersecting tastes.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
Our small lives intersecting and sustaining one another.
—Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
No hills means there is no natural grade separation between the railroad and intersecting roads and footpaths.
—Ian Savage, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2026
Court records show DeFoor has faced multiple criminal cases in Hamilton County in recent years, with each proceeding intersecting with findings related to his mental competency.
—Stephen Sorace , Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 6 Jan. 2026
Optical atomic clocks, which use intersecting laser beams to entrap and monitor the atoms, are currently accurate down to 1 attosecond, or a billionth of a billionth of a second.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Dec. 2025
As shown, and as often happens, the lower end of the breakout range is intersecting with the 50-day moving average about 1% down from here.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
The second print, a tangle of flowers intersecting with geometric stripes, adds a graphic edge.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 10 Dec. 2025
Adjective
Production is currently underway on director Sam Mendes’ upcoming intersecting films on The Beatles.
—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 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
Turned to music, his body emerges from the ditch and now the dust is beautiful, a labyrinth of intersecting crossroads.
—Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
The alliance is the latest way health care and artificial intelligence are rapidly intersecting.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2026
Instead, in the third and fourth episodes, the series finds what’s sympathetic in Reggie and Arthur’s intersecting desperation, and benefits from it.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 18 Jan. 2026
One of my personal favorite wardrobe hacks involves wearing knee-high boots with a midiskirt and using the intersecting hemlines to create a full-coverage look.
—Kelsey Stiegman, Glamour, 19 Dec. 2025
The city defines a through street as one where vehicles have the preferential right-of-way, and where drivers at intersecting streets must yield.
—Idaho Statesman, 17 Dec. 2025
All offer an energetic atmosphere where visitors tend to dance inside and loiter and mingle outside, among the intersecting cyberpunk-ambient streets.
—Malik Peay, Them., 15 Dec. 2025
Verb
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
In the middle of this spectrum, a trio of mid-career stylistic chameleons and sometime collaborators — Feid, J Balvin, and Bad Bunny — carefully map out intersecting tastes.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
Our small lives intersecting and sustaining one another.
—Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
No hills means there is no natural grade separation between the railroad and intersecting roads and footpaths.
—Ian Savage, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2026
Court records show DeFoor has faced multiple criminal cases in Hamilton County in recent years, with each proceeding intersecting with findings related to his mental competency.
—Stephen Sorace , Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 6 Jan. 2026
Optical atomic clocks, which use intersecting laser beams to entrap and monitor the atoms, are currently accurate down to 1 attosecond, or a billionth of a billionth of a second.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Dec. 2025
As shown, and as often happens, the lower end of the breakout range is intersecting with the 50-day moving average about 1% down from here.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
The second print, a tangle of flowers intersecting with geometric stripes, adds a graphic edge.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 10 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intersecting
Adjective
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In the 1800s, for example, the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel used the term Zeitgeist—the spirit of times—to refer to such ubiquitous and overlapping influences that operate across both macro and micro levels.—
Maria Balaska,
Time,
20 Dec. 2025
Verb
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The pedestrian is cited for crossing at other than a crosswalk, a village ordinance violation, Fragassi stated.—
Pioneer Press,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2026
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Gallo, an Argentine national security officer who García says is innocent, was arrested in 2024 and charged with espionage and terrorism after crossing the Colombian-Venezuelan border to reunite with his partner and young son.—
Carmen Sesin,
NBC news,
11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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For Manuel, the moral universe of the golf course — as well as the game itself — functions as an underlying metaphor for the Philippines’ cycles of political stasis.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Feb. 2026
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Healthcare costs remain an ongoing topic across organizations, even as the underlying mechanics of how they are calculated and distributed can be complex.—
Lyssanoel Frater,
USA Today,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Intersecting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intersecting. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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