intersect
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Ari’s and Ibari’s stories are parallel—full of echoes and doubling—but they also intersect, as characters cross from one world to the other.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The Integratron archive doesn’t just intersect with the Huntington’s collections on aerospace and architecture, it captures a niche chapter in the history of California, Chase said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Their restaurants become places where those identities intersect.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
Our lives are inextricably bound up in giant networks of data that begin, end, and intersect with 6-inch screens we carry around in our pockets.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
Their lives didn’t naturally intersect quite the same way, and Leila’s introversion didn’t invite much else.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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The question becomes more prominent when it intersects with governance questions like a closely divided vote or succession concerns.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
The heightened attention to the substance comes as wellness intersects more deeply with health, and as GLP-1 weight-loss medications alter the way Americans eat.
From MarketWatch ● May 10, 2026
Kane said the show would be a great way to celebrate, adding: "What a delightful coincidence that the age of the theatre intersects with the age of our protagonists."
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
That’s where the similarity, if there is any, intersects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
It intersects me so that the doctor will never see my face.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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The city is built on former marshlands and is intersected by a network of canals, many of them heavily flooded by the rains.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Police effectively asked Google to look through a vast archive of human movement and identify which lives intersected with a particular patch of pavement at a particular moment in time.
From Slate ● May 20, 2026
Sean Salisbury, a former quarterback whose career intersected with Browner’s in college and the NFL, was one of many in the football community paying their respects to the four-time All-Pro player.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
Our soundtrack aptly intersected folk and country, and while we listened to anything anyone recommended, Cash was our mainstay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Because if planets had very elliptical orbits, so that their paths intersected, sooner or later there would be a collision.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Footage of giant yellow black-eyed Susan flowers beams onto the wall from one projector, intersecting with video of swaying plants from another.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
The film’s narrative is scattered across two intersecting timelines that steadily build tension, suspicion and intrigue.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
This has led to growing interest in gridshells, which use intersecting curved elements of metal, glass or timber to span wide areas without interior supports.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2025
This mass failure is the result of three intersecting crises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
I stared up at the ceiling: gleaming white lines intersecting and weaving together into a twenty-four-sided star, which cascaded outward into interlocking diamonds as they followed the curvature of the inner dome.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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