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intersect

[in-ter-sekt] / ˌɪn tərˈsɛkt /


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Ari’s and Ibari’s stories are parallel—full of echoes and doubling—but they also intersect, as characters cross from one world to the other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Our lives are inextricably bound up in giant networks of data that begin, end, and intersect with 6-inch screens we carry around in our pockets.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

Primarily, the problem is that leaders of the world’s major countries aren’t doing anything as these threats continue, expand and intersect.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026

"In certain directions inside the crystal, the nodal lines intersect and cross the Fermi energy where electrons can move freely," explains Sánchez-Barriga.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

Where the circles intersect is what they have in common.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio

The question becomes more prominent when it intersects with governance questions like a closely divided vote or succession concerns.

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026

The heightened attention to the substance comes as wellness intersects more deeply with health, and as GLP-1 weight-loss medications alter the way Americans eat.

From MarketWatch ● May 10, 2026

Kane said the show would be a great way to celebrate, adding: "What a delightful coincidence that the age of the theatre intersects with the age of our protagonists."

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

That’s where the similarity, if there is any, intersects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

She stops where the alley intersects with the road.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth

The city is built on former marshlands and is intersected by a network of canals, many of them heavily flooded by the rains.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Police effectively asked Google to look through a vast archive of human movement and identify which lives intersected with a particular patch of pavement at a particular moment in time.

From Slate ● May 20, 2026

“The unexpected gas intersected, as announced today, could potentially mean the cluster holds a larger amount of gas than previously estimated,” Euroz says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025

Elsbeth creator Jonathan Tolins says the script was always planned to be bold, and though real life intersected in uncanny ways, the episode wasn’t rewritten to reflect it.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2025

He watched the shadows carefully, checking up and down the wood-hauling road that came down the broken shale ridge and intersected the Acoma road.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

Also, factors including Singapore’s domestic growth and market reforms are intersecting to open a structural pathway for broader equity-market liquidity and capital-raising demand at SGX.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

“To put my intersecting communities on the map, was one of the greatest feelings and one of the greatest accomplishments.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2026

The film’s narrative is scattered across two intersecting timelines that steadily build tension, suspicion and intrigue.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

This has led to growing interest in gridshells, which use intersecting curved elements of metal, glass or timber to span wide areas without interior supports.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2025

The anxious woman leaned on her desk, and her brow knitted into a strange pattern of angled, intersecting lines.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan


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