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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

Their restaurants become places where those identities intersect.

From Salon ● 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

Our worlds only intersect briefly in the morning when the three of us sit at the kitchen table and in the evening when we return there.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

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

Paul W. Downs can’t help it that even on the weekends, his life intersects with “Hacks,” the HBO comedy he co-created and co-showruns with his wife, Lucia Aniello, and their friend Jen Statsky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 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

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

I know how they intersected in real life, but when do I show that?

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025

Thankfully he turned down the street they’d intersected, which was level.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

Footage of giant yellow black-eyed Susan flowers beams onto the wall from one projector, intersecting with video of swaying plants from another.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

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

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

That is similar to an August case, in which ICE agents attempted to box in a truck in San Bernardino, Calif. In that instance, the driver was able to turn right onto an intersecting street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 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

Tiny flakes floated into the deep intersecting lines of footprints, and for a moment I felt myself slow, watching the way the snow was neither flying nor falling.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken


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