intersect
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The suspect ditched his bike in the Broadway-Manchester neighborhood, northeast of where Interstates 105 and 110 intersect, and ran off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
My research on how these movements evolve online and intersect with political activists and extremist networks was directly relevant to tracing how COVID-origin claims moved from fringe communities into mainstream political discourse.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 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
In at least one spot, Israel moved the line forward a few hundred yards to intersect with Salah al-Din Road, Gaza’s main north-south artery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 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 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
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
Twelve miles on foot brought him to Topock, Arizona, a dusty way station along Interstate 40 where the freeway intersects the California border.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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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
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
For decades, raw milk has been consumed by alternative health types, typically those who intersected with the “raw food” movement, a diet fad where people would eat only raw food.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2024
While these reforms were desperately needed, deinstitutionalization intersected with the spread of mass imprisonment policies—expanding criminal statutes and harsh sentencing—to disastrous effect.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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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
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
This mass failure is the result of three intersecting crises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
Tracks ran down the intersecting street, vibrating with cables even though no trolley was in sight.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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