crosscut
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“I don’t like the crosscut, because you’re relying on someone else.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
One day, her four-person crew hiked three miles into the woods toting a crosscut saw.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2021
The threat of danger is palpable, but it’s crosscut by a flicker of joy — she’s making a break for it, running away, getting free.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2019
Howe and Stokes both grew up in Portland, and neither had a background in timber cutting, let alone using crosscut saws - the 19th-century tool known by lumberjacks as a “misery whip.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 28, 2018
I wouldn’t have been more scared if someone had thrown a crosscut saw at me.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
But crosscutting concerns for months had made it impossible to gain traction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025
And yet, the series takes pains to connect them, thematically and visually, in the editing process, through crosscutting that links them throughout different periods of their lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
There’s the part at the end of the song that’s crosscutting between Harris and Evelyn, and Nathan Lane just floats this lovely falsetto at the end.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2023
The changing circulation patterns also lead to more crosscutting wind shear, which can stymie storm development.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 21, 2023
His lines of crosscutting holes were growing very short.
From Moon-Face by Jack London
