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intersected

verb

past tense of intersect

as in crossed

to divide by passing through or across an elevated highway now intersects that old urban neighborhood

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Recent Examples of intersected Their lives have intersected over the years in Hollywood and beyond as their careers evolved. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026 The two families’ lives intersected once again in their dedication to fight for independence for the Baltic states in the early 1960s. — Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026 From 2021 to 2022, NFT trading intersected with the contemporary art world most dramatically at major auction houses. — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026 Soares’s work intersected with some of the defining figures in international music, from Argentine tango composer and arranger Astor Piazzolla to jazz legends Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026 In its northern section, excavators found a main street running east to west; this is intersected by a road running south to north, indicating some level of urban planning within the fortification. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026 These symmetrical shapes each consist of faces that are identical polygons (n-gons), where each vertex is intersected by exactly m edges. — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2026 The shift coincided with the decline of vert skating and the rise of street skating, which increasingly intersected with hip-hop and fashion culture. — Michelle Bruton, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026 Her protocol had intersected somewhat with his own desperate push. — Emma Cline, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026

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crossed

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Iowa State crossed Arizona's 40-yard line three times, its only points coming on Kyle Konrady's 40-yard field goal.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
While countries like Sweden and France are pursuing similar deep geological repositories, Finland has officially crossed the finish line first.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026

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