intersect
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Their restaurants become places where those identities intersect.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
Edmonds and Frahm ask: "What and who determined a king's 'canonicity'? How did this intersect with Assyrian cultural memory or notions of kingship? Was the AKL's function at all practical, or solely ceremonial?"
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 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
In his column, Adam reports on food trends as they intersect with business and culture, from the secret economy behind ramp season to the blood feud between Diet Coke and Coke Zero drinkers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
“Perhaps our paths will intersect, and we’ll get to see how tall the man is in real life.”
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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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
More broadly, energy policy intersects with industrial policy in a manner that echoes his China thinking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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
Where that orbit intersects the orbit of the Earth, there is a swarm of meteors waiting for us.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
Coincidentally or not, that pained study of marital dissolution, co-starring Jolie’s then-husband Brad Pitt, intersected with the couple’s real-life breakup — not to mention Jolie’s grief over the death of her mother, Marcheline Bertrand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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
“The unexpected gas intersected, as announced today, could potentially mean the cluster holds a larger amount of gas than previously estimated,” Euroz says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
The driver pulled up to a narrow building at a busy corner where two winding streets intersected.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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Its intersecting wings provide natural light to every room, a legal requirement that can be difficult to meet in modern commercial buildings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 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
"Coming though it there are a lot of intersecting country roads."
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
We see on Europa an amazing, intricate network of intersecting straight and curved lines.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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