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crosscutting

[kraws-kuht-ing, kros-] / ˈkrɔsˌkʌt ɪŋ, ˈkrɒs- /
VERB
cut across
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But crosscutting concerns for months had made it impossible to gain traction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2025

And yet, the series takes pains to connect them, thematically and visually, in the editing process, through crosscutting that links them throughout different periods of their lives.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2024

There’s the part at the end of the song that’s crosscutting between Harris and Evelyn, and Nathan Lane just floats this lovely falsetto at the end.

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2023

Calm skies must also prevail because crosscutting winds called shear can rip holes in a nascent hurricane’s vortex.

From Scientific American • Jun. 1, 2023

Begin sawing as in crosscutting, that is, at the farther corner with the handle end of the saw up, and gradually drop the handle.

From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William



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