cross section

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To accommodate the Taper’s configuration, the cast redid the blocking of numerous sections — decisions that, surprisingly, accentuate the text.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2022

With so much else going on, the actual films chosen for the festival’s numerous sections can get a bit overshadowed, but they seem to be a promising lot.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2017

The 264km Tour of Flanders, starting in Bruges on Sunday, is traditionally one of the most bruising races on the UCI calendar, with numerous sections on bone-shaking cobbles.

From Reuters • Apr. 2, 2015

The great object of William now was to unite in one body the numerous sections of the community which regarded him as their common head.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Owing to the numerous sections of poor rock, interspersed throughout the work with stretches of sound rock, the progress of the excavation was very irregular, especially in 32d Street.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158 by Brace, James H.