crosscut

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Recent Examples of crosscut Next, crosscut the parts to the dimensions shown in the drawing. Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2022 First, crosscut the 8-ft-long strip into two 32 1/8-inch long pieces. Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023 The divide between conservatives and progressives is crosscut by those who want the courts to retain their authority over constitutional meaning and those who do not. Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023 The scene is crosscut with Alicent copulating with the King—disinterestedly and out of duty. Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 12 Sep. 2022 See All Example Sentences for crosscut
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crosscut
Verb
  • Long connected off Brooklyn’s Carl Erskine at Forbes Field. 1968 — The American League announced the league will be split into two divisions.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
  • In his four years split between Jackson State and Colorado, the son of the legendary Deion Sanders threw for 14,347 yards, 134 touchdowns, and 27 interceptions, while completing 70.1 percent of his attempts.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
Verb
  • Everyone, even the children, have scars from where the corners of their mouths have been slit up into their cheeks, Joker-style.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 27 Apr. 2025
  • There are no marks on the bones directly attributable to a cause of death, Green said, and the Romans typically killed their sacrifices by slitting their throats or through drowning.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Trump and others in his administration have tried slicing through these knots rather than putting in the legal work to untie them.
    The Editors, National Review, 19 May 2025
  • Santana’s at-bats per extra-base hit, by year: 2025: 21.3 2024: 10.6 2023: 9.6 2022: 11.6 2021: 16.6 2020: 13.7 2019: 8.8 David Fry will return soon from elbow surgery, and if Santana’s power hasn’t resurfaced by then, the Guardians can’t be afraid to slice into his playing time.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Verb
  • His college admissions have been the subject of speculation since the Trump administration's Tuesday, May 27, decision to slash all remaining federal funding to the Ivy League institution.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 28 May 2025
  • Some Harvard labs, including one working on human organs-on-chips, which replicate the function of organs, have received stop-work orders following the Trump Administration’s efforts to slash funding.
    Solcyré Burga, Time, 27 May 2025
Verb
  • In the southern Sierra, the dense rocks had the strongest inherent stripes and were shown to have already sheared away from the crust, whereas in the central region this process appears to be ongoing.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Nearly all the materials used to build the lodge were sourced locally: pine harvested sustainably from the surrounding forests, wool sheared from the sheep that graze in the pastures outside, stone from nearby quarries.
    Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Now the Trump administration wants to negate that argument by asserting that to harm an endangered species means only to injure or kill it directly: to rip it out by the roots or blow it away with a shotgun.
    Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 25 May 2025
  • The Tangipahoa Jail is about 70 miles away from New Orleans, where 10 inmates escaped by ripping a toilet and sink unit from the wall and climbing through a hole on May 16.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 24 May 2025
Verb
  • Republican bill cuts Medicaid for unemployed, undocumented children, Planned Parenthood How much do Americans rely on programs like Medicaid and Social Security?
    Riley Beggin, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • The president has cut the Israelis out of regional decision making and reportedly kiboshed a plan to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.
    Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 22 May 2025
Verb
  • At its base definition, scissoring is just about genital-to-genital stimulation, so anyone interested in doing so can scissor.
    Adejoke Mason, Them, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Sizzle highlighted above, there are a lot of assumptions around who can scissor.
    Adejoke Mason, Them, 3 Dec. 2024

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“Crosscut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crosscut. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.

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