cross
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Brazilian foreign ministry official Carlos Bicalho Cozendey said Wednesday that "no specific bilateral meeting" is planned for Lula and Trump, but they "will probably cross paths at the Assembly" like they did last year.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
But the Pakistani authorities asked Iranian drivers for the equivalent of more than $10,000 each to cross, an unprecedented amount, it said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
It is unclear if Anderson had been granted permission to cross the border to attend the cremation.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
On Tuesday, a silver cross on a long chain hung from the pine tree’s bark, which was peeling and blackened from the blaze.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Granda put the sign of the cross on her forehead with his thumb.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
“They’ve always been saying the ‘now’ should be when the capability of their machines crosses a threshold,” Tegmark said Sunday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
“We will not tolerate threats of political violence in the United States. My office will prosecute anyone who crosses that line to the fullest extent of the law.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The metro no longer crosses the Dnieper River, which divides the capital in two, causing traffic chaos.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Emiliano Martinez: The new signing was thrown straight in, claiming two early crosses and making saves from Malick Yalcouye and Charalampos Kostoulas - though the former did beat him with a well-struck volley.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
But his jaw clenches; he turns and crosses the room to the one window.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
Today Kim Kardashian is a fashion mogul, prison reform advocate and crosser of picket lines.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2023
As a neighbor and frequent crosser of their campus, I deeply appreciate the peaceful beauty that you provide.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
He was an adept crosser of high-traffic freeways — until he wasn’t.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
A fine crosser, his energy often drives the team forward in difficult moments.
From BBC ● May 24, 2022
“But if I do, I shall be crosser still. I can never bear to think of you all there without me.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
“You’re the crossest person in it!” returned Amy, washing out the sum that was all wrong with the tears that had fallen on her slate.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
The crossest of the babies had exhausted its capacity for making its fellow-creatures miserable.
From Vixen, Volume III. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
So instinctively chivalrous was he that there was "no service which the ugliest, oldest, crossest woman in the world might not have exacted of him."
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds
Why, he's the ugliest-tempered, crossest, hatefullest, disagreeablest old snapping-turtle ever you saw.
From Sharing Her Crime by May Agnes Fleming
The particular Sister whose drudge I was at that period was rather apt to be cross; and this was one of her crossest days.
From Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital by Ward Muir
On Monday, the 10-year Treasury note’s yield crossed 5%, hitting its highest intraday level since 2007.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Between 1 January and 14 September 2026, a total of 17,425 people crossed the English Channel by small boat from France.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The 10-year Treasury yield on Monday crossed the key 5% threshold, which in turn nudged the 30-year mortgage rate upward.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
As she crossed the border, Anna Klymenko, a dermatologist in Kyiv, saw the locomotive that Russia had destroyed the day before.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
She crossed her arms, stubbornly, and jutted out her lower lip just like she always did anytime she fought with Jonah.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Malekzadeh said 3,700 trucks were stranded on the Iranian side of the crossing to Turkey, with delays reaching 20 days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
In one of our final negotiation sessions, when we’re supposed to be dotting i’s and crossing t’s, he worries aloud about how these two vastly different companies are going to mesh their different cultures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The brothers covered about 260 miles in a straight line over the course of eight months, but travelled nearly 10 times that overall while crossing through a broken-up landscape.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
The statement marked the kingdom's first official reaction to a Spanish police report accusing Morocco's security forces of "total permissiveness" when the mass crossing took place.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
With a quiet tread born of crossing silently backstage during performances, Simon slipped behind the hedge.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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