intersect
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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
The Integratron archive doesn’t just intersect with the Huntington’s collections on aerospace and architecture, it captures a niche chapter in the history of California, Chase said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 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
The two ivy- covered walls on either side of him seemed to intersect with nothing but sky up ahead.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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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
I’d never given much thought to ABBA, but as a Vietnamese American who grew up in the ’80s, I’ve become increasingly curious about how the Swedish pop group intersects with the Viet experience.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2025
Where that orbit intersects the orbit of the Earth, there is a swarm of meteors waiting for us.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
Sean Salisbury, a former quarterback whose career intersected with Browner’s in college and the NFL, was one of many in the football community paying their respects to the four-time All-Pro player.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
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
Our soundtrack aptly intersected folk and country, and while we listened to anything anyone recommended, Cash was our mainstay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
The business streets intersected to form the shape of a cross.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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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
"Coming though it there are a lot of intersecting country roads."
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
Catherine Telford Keogh’s “Cradlers” at Socrates raises steel and aluminum high into the air on poles, intersecting constructions that look like fragments from a spaceship’s hull with fossiliferous limestone blocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 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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