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
To lay out these events, the early scenes principally crosscut among three people.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
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
Working with crosscut saws, shovels and a combination digging-cutting tool called a Pulaski, they sought to starve fires using similar methods to those of contemporary smoke jumpers.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2017
Papa said it would grow hair on a crosscut saw.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" 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
Blount recalled his men from the drifts where 91they had been working and set them to crosscutting for the vein.
From Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge
