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crosscut

[kraws-kuht, kros-] / ˈkrɔsˌkʌt, ˈkrɒs- /


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“I don’t like the crosscut, because you’re relying on someone else.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 5, 2025

Throughout this thing, Thompson is dropping explanatory information and montages that are crosscut with more information.

From New York Times Jun. 24, 2021

“My father worked all day cutting wood with a crosscut saw,” Guy told me.

From The New Yorker Mar. 4, 2019

He brought to the club the skills to work a crosscut saw and swing a pulaski - a wildland firefighter’s hand tool that’s been in use for more than a century.

From Washington Times Oct. 28, 2018

Pulling her end of a crosscut saw, and swinging the heavy blade of a double-bitted ax, she helped Papa clear the land.

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 are a few crosscutting themes in my work — thriller aspect with “Blackfish,” but also can I say something remotely important in a new way?

From Salon Jan. 19, 2024

The changing circulation patterns also lead to more crosscutting wind shear, which can stymie storm development.

From Scientific American Jun. 21, 2023

The waters of Scrubgrass Bend, for instance, were crosscutting over Scrubgrass Towhead in one league-wide sheet, and Islands Seventy-this-and-that and Islands Sixty-that-and-this were under them to their tree-tops.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable




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