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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 are a few crosscutting themes in my work — thriller aspect with “Blackfish,” but also can I say something remotely important in a new way?

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2024

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

The waters of Scrubgrass Bend, for instance, were crosscutting over Scrubgrass Towhead in one league-wide sheet, and Islands Seventy-this-and-that and Islands Sixty-that-and-this were under them to their tree-tops.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington



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