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 three-day event focuses on the intersections of trade, economics, security and foreign policy, and is expected to draw business leaders and heads of state.
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Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
Relatives of the injured drove ahead, in separate cars, and alerted the convoy to checkpoints or police who patrolled intersections along their route.
—Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2026
Other funds will go to improving intersections, traffic signals, streetlights, adding sidewalks, and improving safety for street crossings around schools.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Feb. 2026
Members hold signs at busy traffic intersections and highway overpasses during morning and afternoon rush hours.
—Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 10 Feb. 2026
But those electronic eyes, mounted to poles at intersections throughout this city of nearly 150,000, brought out dozens of people to the Thornton Community Center for a discussion on how the controversial license plate-reading cameras are being used — and whether they should be used at all.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2026
On weekends, neighbors have been gathering at intersections, some slowing traffic, others blocking streets entirely, as part of a grassroots effort to watch for federal immigration agents.
—Derek James, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
This work could be helpful in the future for determining busy intersections for satellites, LLNL says.
—Julian Dossett, Space.com, 10 Feb. 2026
The intersections with Northwest 118th and Northwest 142nd avenues had the highest number of crashes, the study states.
—Virginia Barreda, Des Moines Register, 6 Feb. 2026
Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
Relatives of the injured drove ahead, in separate cars, and alerted the convoy to checkpoints or police who patrolled intersections along their route.
—Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2026
Other funds will go to improving intersections, traffic signals, streetlights, adding sidewalks, and improving safety for street crossings around schools.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Feb. 2026
Members hold signs at busy traffic intersections and highway overpasses during morning and afternoon rush hours.
—Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 10 Feb. 2026
But those electronic eyes, mounted to poles at intersections throughout this city of nearly 150,000, brought out dozens of people to the Thornton Community Center for a discussion on how the controversial license plate-reading cameras are being used — and whether they should be used at all.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2026
On weekends, neighbors have been gathering at intersections, some slowing traffic, others blocking streets entirely, as part of a grassroots effort to watch for federal immigration agents.
—Derek James, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
This work could be helpful in the future for determining busy intersections for satellites, LLNL says.
—Julian Dossett, Space.com, 10 Feb. 2026
The intersections with Northwest 118th and Northwest 142nd avenues had the highest number of crashes, the study states.
—Virginia Barreda, Des Moines Register, 6 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intersections
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Creating reliable molecular junctions at the nanometer scale Building molecular junctions requires electrodes spaced less than 3 nanometers apart.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Jan. 2026
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Astrocytes, which outnumber neurons in many brain regions, have complex and varied shapes, and sometimes tendrils, that can envelop hundreds of thousands or millions of synapses, the junctions where neurons exchange molecular signals.—
Ingrid Wickelgren,
Quanta Magazine,
30 Jan. 2026
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Her waterline was filled with black liner, which melted into the corners of her eyes.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
10 Feb. 2026
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In fact, one shopper even credits it with improving sagging corners around the mouth and forehead creasing.—
Melanie Fincher,
Southern Living,
10 Feb. 2026
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But it still cannot be used to bring aid in, and though humanitarian support has increased via crossings from Israel, such assistance remains insufficient for the territory’s undernourished population.—
Alexander Onukwue,
semafor.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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Well, the starting point has to be systems characterized by integrity, which is to say with minimal space for illegally regular migration, smuggling, trafficking, mass border crossings.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
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Joe Palaggi is a writer and historian whose work sits at the crossroads of theology, politics, and American civic culture.—
Joe Palaggi,
Twin Cities,
11 Feb. 2026
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Maryland stands at a crossroads.—
Steve Hershey,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Intersections.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intersections. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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