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intersection

[in-ter-sek-shuhn] / ˌɪn tərˈsɛk ʃən /


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I knew many of these people from a decade of reporting on the often ugly intersection of Muslims and American politics.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2026

Nvidia created the first GPU in 1999, riding the intersection of video games, data centers, cloud computing and now generative AI.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026

The encounter occurred just before 8:30 a.m. near the intersection of Vineland Place and Otsego Street, said Damari Butler, a resident.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

James’s father was an evangelical clergyman who influenced his son’s preoccupations with ecclesiastical history and the intersection of the material and spiritual worlds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

They slowed to a stop at the intersection of Main and Third, where Ivy needed to keep going straight and Taryn needed to turn left.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

Behind the scenes, sophisticated algorithms analyze networks of roads and intersections to identify efficient paths.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Officials have completed road improvements along the detour route and will deploy traffic control officers at 18 key intersections during the bridge’s full closure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Well, I mean, there are a lot of intersections of opportunities for Elon Musk, and I also think he discovered, to use a phrase of his, the anomaly in the matrix for the American system.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

On Friday, thousands of security personnel were deployed in parts of the city, with yellow-coloured metal barricades put up at key intersections.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

The headlines told of a decision by the Board of Aldermen, after four months deliberation, that the local budget could not afford traffic lights at certain dangerous intersections of the town.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers


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