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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

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

We dance around each other, but never intersect.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

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

More broadly, energy policy intersects with industrial policy in a manner that echoes his China thinking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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

It intersects me so that the doctor will never see my face.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

Amplitude said the well in southeastern Australia’s Otway Basin intersected a gas-bearing section of the primary Waarre-C reservoir.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

It was here that my journey into bathing culture intersected with the pioneering work of Leonard Koren, who began documenting L.A. bathing culture back in 1976 with Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

The trail had eventually forked and then intersected the road they were currently following.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

By the time he created “Curb,” melding intricately intersecting tales of quotidian annoyances with improvised dialogue, Mr. David was firmly in charge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

And just the all the intersecting dynamics of that, I found it really exciting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

Each was connected within an intricate framework of oddly-angled corridors and intersecting staircases that wound from the belly of the building to its deepest depths to the crown of its sky-viewer and back again.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill


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