How to Use cross talk in a Sentence

cross talk

noun
  • No cross talk, no giant cups of coffee, not even music playing in the background.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2022
  • But Karsenty notes these findings do not provide a clear road map of how the brain-bone cross talk happens.
    — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2019
  • In fact, relatively little of this cross talk would be noticeable in the final cut of the film.
    — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Plus, a whole lot of tossing olive oil, cross talking with his daughter who’s filming, and general family mayhem.
    — Alex Pastron, Bon Appétit, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The rules change came after the first debate featured in a chaotic night of cross talk and constant interruptions by the candidates.
    — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The singsong verse of the morality plays is countered by ribald cross talk delivered with naturalistic verve.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Meanwhile, on network television, things were reaching that level of cacophonous cross talk that’s only seen when there’s no real news to report.
    — Parker Richards, The New Republic, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The science and military efforts are kept heavily firewalled from each other, of course, but there is frequently a very abstract, high-level of cross talk between the two.
    — Julianne Dalcanton, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2012
  • With every additional pathway, the odds of metabolism-disrupting cross talk get higher.
    — WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
  • However increasing the plane density can also generate interference in the form of cross talk, Gong says.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Apr. 2023
  • External noise, noise from the electronics, and cross talk between control signals for different qubits all destroy the fragile quantum properties of the qubits.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2024
  • At times the forum became a free-for-all of cross talk among candidates desperate to wedge their personalities and signature ideas into brief snippets of television airtime.
    — Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 27 June 2019
  • The nervous-immune connection is intriguing in light of recent research suggesting that chemical cross talk between gut macrophages and nerve fibers can control peristalsis, the process that moves food through the digestive tract.
    — Esther Landhuis, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Elegant cross talk between organs is orchestrated by the profoundly complicated immune system.
    — E. Wesley Ely, STAT, 26 Oct. 2021
  • However, a straightforward application of the bus introduced cross talk between the pixels that destroyed the device’s sensitivity.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 July 2023
  • Some 4 percent of people report having it, and studies suggest the phenomenon has to do with slight differences in their brains, compared to normal ones, that allow for more cross talk between the wiring for sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch.
    — Maureen Seaberg, Glamour, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Throughout development there is constant cross talk from processes that happen at different scales of biological organization.
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The two areas are normally in constant cross talk, filtering and analyzing sensory data and making continual adjustments to attention and alertness.
    — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2011
  • Normally, such cross talk is seen as interference, which radios are designed to suppress—especially digital radios with their error-correcting schemes and inherent resistance to low-level noise.
    — Ana I. Pérez-Neira, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Aside from cross talk between both sides, the event stayed peaceful as dozens of vehicles and officers lined the street outside Chicago’s Kluczynski Federal Plaza, separating the groups.
    — Hank Sanders, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2023
  • Its performance is affected by the overall interaction of such things as the number of qubits, connectivity of qubits, gate fidelity, cross talk, circuit compiler efficiency, and other features that affect a quantum computer.
    — Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Eavesdropping Plants Despite the growing evidence that plants are capable of communication, many plant scientists still question whether this cross talk is biologically meaningful.
    — Quanta Magazine, 16 Dec. 2013
  • The 12-candidate format is likely to generate more than a few moments of cross talk and interruptions, particularly as lower-polling candidates seek a possible last opportunity to break out in front of a national audience.
    — Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The issue took up the rest of the first hour of the debate but the constant cross talk between the candidates was repeatedly interrupted by the CNN moderators, who were strictly enforcing the cable outlet's debate rules and time limits.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 30 July 2019

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