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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
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
25 June 2026
All four players are exceptional in their roles, playing smartly off their screen personas while exploring the nuances of the characters and their intersecting dynamics.
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Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2026
Challenges for caregivers and schools A single death can force a bereaved family to navigate multiple intersecting losses.
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Keisha M. Wint,
The Conversation,
23 June 2026
The crew coordinated with air traffic control and performed a go-around, which involves aborting a landing attempt and climbing away from the runway, to avoid an American Airlines plane that was departing from an intersecting runway, The Guardian reported.
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Adam England,
PEOPLE,
22 June 2026
Neither American Airlines nor the FAA confirmed the details of the other flight involved, but data from FlightRadar24 shows AA3161 taking off from an intersecting runway at the same time DL2351 was preparing to land.
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Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
The Delta flight from Dallas had to execute a go-around, or aborted landing, to avoid the American plane departing from an intersecting runway, according to the FAA and flight logs.
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ABC News,
21 June 2026
The intersecting links are deceptively simple.
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Jill Newman,
Robb Report,
18 June 2026
In 2001 the city announced the O’Hare Modernization Program, a multibillion-dollar effort to reconfigure intersecting runways into a more efficient parallel layout and increase airfield capacity.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
10 June 2026
Glenn Whipp,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2026
Each film will center on a different member of the Beatles’ point of view, intersecting to capture the band’s improbable journey from Liverpool to the center of global culture, culminating in their 1970 breakup.
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Brent Lang,
Variety,
12 June 2026
Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund's film feels like a good novel, with art, crime, love, and squalor all intersecting in a cohesive story that manages to astonish.
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Eric Farwell,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 June 2026
Clad in charred cedar, concrete and sawn limestone, the home’s intersecting volumes vault over an outdoor living space that’s shaded from the Texas sun by the living area above.
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Fred Albert,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026
In 2026, memorabilia showcases the America 250 logo, which features red, white and blue lines intersecting to form the triple-digit landmark number.
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Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
Like Ophelia’s Got Talent, and intersecting with many of its themes, A Year Without Summer is all about bodily monstrosities.
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Caroline Lillian Schopp,
Artforum,
13 May 2026
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.
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Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
12 May 2026
And online, orange lights are intersecting with the trend to paper lanterns.
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Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
Close call between two passenger jets in Boston A jet landing in Boston nearly collided with another plane taking off on an intersecting runway, prompting FAA and NTSB investigations.
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Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
25 June 2026
All four players are exceptional in their roles, playing smartly off their screen personas while exploring the nuances of the characters and their intersecting dynamics.
—
Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2026
Challenges for caregivers and schools A single death can force a bereaved family to navigate multiple intersecting losses.
—
Keisha M. Wint,
The Conversation,
23 June 2026
The crew coordinated with air traffic control and performed a go-around, which involves aborting a landing attempt and climbing away from the runway, to avoid an American Airlines plane that was departing from an intersecting runway, The Guardian reported.
—
Adam England,
PEOPLE,
22 June 2026
Neither American Airlines nor the FAA confirmed the details of the other flight involved, but data from FlightRadar24 shows AA3161 taking off from an intersecting runway at the same time DL2351 was preparing to land.
—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
The Delta flight from Dallas had to execute a go-around, or aborted landing, to avoid the American plane departing from an intersecting runway, according to the FAA and flight logs.
—
ABC News,
21 June 2026
The intersecting links are deceptively simple.
—
Jill Newman,
Robb Report,
18 June 2026
In 2001 the city announced the O’Hare Modernization Program, a multibillion-dollar effort to reconfigure intersecting runways into a more efficient parallel layout and increase airfield capacity.
—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
10 June 2026
Verb
With 24 main characters interwoven around the town of Nashville, home of country music and intersecting political undercurrents, the film tries to make sense of the chaos.
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Glenn Whipp,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2026
Each film will center on a different member of the Beatles’ point of view, intersecting to capture the band’s improbable journey from Liverpool to the center of global culture, culminating in their 1970 breakup.
—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
12 June 2026
Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund's film feels like a good novel, with art, crime, love, and squalor all intersecting in a cohesive story that manages to astonish.
—
Eric Farwell,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 June 2026
Clad in charred cedar, concrete and sawn limestone, the home’s intersecting volumes vault over an outdoor living space that’s shaded from the Texas sun by the living area above.
—
Fred Albert,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026
In 2026, memorabilia showcases the America 250 logo, which features red, white and blue lines intersecting to form the triple-digit landmark number.
—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
Like Ophelia’s Got Talent, and intersecting with many of its themes, A Year Without Summer is all about bodily monstrosities.
—
Caroline Lillian Schopp,
Artforum,
13 May 2026
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intersecting
Adjective
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Instead, their ranges formed what researchers describe as a mosaic of separate, non-overlapping distributions.
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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.
Verb
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Prosecutors said the children were then transported to El Paso after crossing the border.
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Hopes have risen that crude supplies will improve markedly with the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that’s key for the world’s oil transport, even though the number of ships crossing the strait is still limited.
Adjective
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Without rigorous normalization governance, inconsistencies in how the same underlying reality is represented across feeds produce systematic noise that no model can fully overcome.
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Beyond just being a nuisance, phorid flies can also be an indicator of more serious underlying issues in your home.
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