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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

To lay out these events, the early scenes principally crosscut among three people.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022

One day, her four-person crew hiked three miles into the woods toting a crosscut saw.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2021

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

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019

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

Calm skies must also prevail because crosscutting winds called shear can rip holes in a nascent hurricane’s vortex.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 1, 2023

We'd got down about sixty feet, all timbered, and was thinking of crosscutting.

From The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories by Franklin K. Mathiews




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