cross
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But there is a line between realism and moral indifference that U.S. officials should not cross.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
He had been making a similar argument as Stevens for weeks, though he wasn’t willing to go quite so far as to cross party lines.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
Bradley Barcola delivered a cross into the Arsenal penalty area, with Liverpool striker Alexander Isak seemingly ready to nod home an equaliser.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
But Angel City went ahead to stay eight minutes into the second half when Shores headed in a long cross from Jonsdottir for her fourth goal of the season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
From her tone, he could tell that she was still cross.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
From there, the pathway crosses to the opposite side.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
With her cover blown anyway, Khosla crosses the powdery dirt yard to the trailer at the chipping yard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Manchester City's Champions League game against Paris St-Germain last week was an absolute throwback, which provided so many crosses, shots and goalmouth action.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Apple stock crosses the $5 trillion market-capitalization threshold after the company releases its new smart home lineup.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
I want to turn the photo over so that I don’t have to look at him, but Auntie Idris crosses the room with a few limps and picks up the photo.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
Today Kim Kardashian is a fashion mogul, prison reform advocate and crosser of picket lines.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2023
Future first-round draft pick Quentin Johnston took a short crosser from Duggan and turned it up the sideline for a 76-yard score that put the Frogs up 10.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
Just for good measure, the Tar Heels repeated the process in the 74th minute, but with Libby Moore serving the crosser.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2022
A fine crosser, his energy often drives the team forward in difficult moments.
From BBC ● May 24, 2022
“But if I do, I shall be crosser still. I can never bear to think of you all there without me.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
“You’re the crossest person in it!” returned Amy, washing out the sum that was all wrong with the tears that had fallen on her slate.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Oweneen the Sprat is the name he goes by, and he's the crossest little thief in the Barony.
From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross
As for misjudgin’, I’ve often an’ over again heard ’em say I was the crossest feller they ever did meet with, but they never was more out in their reckoning.”
From Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
There this Princess, the crossest and most disagreeable of all the disagreeable six, was curled up in bed and slumbering cosily.
From Sky Island Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after Their Visit to the Sea Fairies by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
So instinctively chivalrous was he that there was "no service which the ugliest, oldest, crossest woman in the world might not have exacted of him."
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds
“I don’t know how else our paths would have crossed if that didn’t happen.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
During the quarter, Cloudflare crossed the threshold of $3 billion in annualized revenue.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
The crossed organization of the nervous system extends beyond sensation.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
As the plane crossed to Florida’s east coast, a thunderstorm in its path was growing in intensity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
I crossed my arms, fighting to keep my voice level.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
He remembered the ocean crossing and his arrival in the U.S. as a squalid nightmare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
When the first coyote was photographed on the southern end of the crossing last week, a steep dropoff between its two overpasses made it impossible to get to the other side.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
Settlers had begun crossing the Appalachians to give the newly independent country a growing stake in Louisiana.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Eventually more than 50 cameras taking still photos, along with four thermal video cameras, will capture the action on and around the crossing, Sikich said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
“And I have a headache,” Beowulf added, crossing his eyes.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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