intersected

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 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 Several readers have spoken of appreciation for the columns of mine that intersected sports and society, such as excoriating the NFL for its blackballing of Colin Kaepernick. — Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intersected
crossed
Verb
  • Video circulating on social media showed a drone striking the bridge and exploding as vehicles crossed.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Last month, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury crossed 5%, the highest yield on that security since the summer of 2007, near the start of the financial crisis and the Great Recession.
    — Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2026

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“Intersected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intersected. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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