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
  • Women often lose income, take on the bulk of caregiving, and carry the invisible labor of rebuilding a life, while men complain of the long-tail financial consequences of alimony, support payments, and assets split down the middle.
    Ruhama Wolle, Glamour, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Weeks after rumors spread that Californian experimental hip-hop trio Death Grips had split, the band have now taken to social media to deny these claims.
    Tyler Jenke, Billboard, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Rolling the pastry around the carrots and sealing the ends creates the traditional Wellington shape; decorative slits in the dough add visual interest and allow steam to escape while the log cooks.
    Kendra Vaculin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Then, fearing he'd be blamed, Tripp stole a knife from the office of pastry chef Didier Gotthard (Bronson Pinchot) and used it to slit A.B.'s wrists in order to make his death look more like a suicide.
    Megan McCluskey, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Three men wearing ski masks, dark clothing and gloves had used power tools to slice open a hole in the museum’s door, crawl in and smash glass cabinets to steal the white pomegranate vase, as well as a porcelain bowl and doucai-style wine cup, also from the imperial Ming dynasty.
    Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Expect classic Swiss mountain fare, including an array of sausages, sliced veal Zurich-style in a cream sauce with mushrooms, homemade pâtés, terrines pates, and beef tartare.
    Everett Potter, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The Trump administration wants to significantly cut NASA’s budget next year, slashing science research funding in half, a reduction that would halt the launch of a high-tech space telescope and curtail other planetary exploration missions.
    George Petras, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Nimmo is slashing mere .202/.253/.381 this season, but Sunday’s heroics could be a sign of changing fortune.
    James O'Connell, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • In Lincoln’s time, people in the town would shear their sheep, wash the fleece and card the wool using the mill.
    Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The bomb explodes at 9:02 a.m., ripping to ruins the nine-story structure.
    Todd Pendleton, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The thought of being ripped from her home, without time to pack up her belongings or say goodbye to friends, shakes her to the core.
    Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The country’s Ministry of Trade and Industry cut its gross domestic product forecast to 0%-2% for 2025, down from its previous outlook of 1%-3%.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Place bottoms, cut sides up, in a 13- x 9-inch baking dish coated with cooking spray.
    Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 14 Apr. 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 25 Apr. 2025.

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