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cross

[kraws, kros] / krɔs, krɒs /


ADJECTIVE
lying across each other
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I’ll have my Scooby snacks ready in case we ever cross paths.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

"In certain directions inside the crystal, the nodal lines intersect and cross the Fermi energy where electrons can move freely," explains Sánchez-Barriga.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

Further deterioration began last October, when a bearish death cross formed as the 50-day simple moving average moved below the 200-day simple moving average.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

U.S. cattle ranchers and hog farmers have spent months bracing for the screwworm—which is spread by flies laying eggs in open wounds of warm-blooded animals—to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Just to cross the border was to feel the great weight that hung over that land.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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