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
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
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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