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Recent Examples of crosscut
Next, crosscut the parts to the dimensions shown in the drawing.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crosscut
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An additional 10 percent of those sales, plus the sales of books that are not earmarked for a specific store, gets split up and distributed to every store on Bookshop's platform.—
Boone Ashworth,
WIRED,
28 Jan. 2025
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Wooden fences sagged and split, their paint faded and peeling.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
27 Jan. 2025
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Its striking foliage has holes and slits in it, sort of like slices of Swiss cheese does, hence the plant’s nickname.—
Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Jan. 2025
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Sensing no use for them, Red Feather’s warriors slit their throats — except for the throat of the one with the steely gaze and defiant words to match: Abish.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2025
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Even when the Clippers’ 26-point lead in the third quarter was sliced to 15 by the end of the quarter and to 11 early in the fourth, Leonard sat on the bench.—
Broderick Turner,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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Instead of stopping with the wall, Martin and his representatives said, his contractor kept slicing, also taking the top off that previously intact 46-foot length of the bluff next to it.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
14 Jan. 2025
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Boeing executives have already disclosed plans to slash 17,000 jobs and cut costs everywhere from company travel to corporate events.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
26 Jan. 2025
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Trump had tapped billionaires Musk and Ramaswamy to head DOGE, a nongovernmental task force assigned to find ways to slash federal spending and make the federal government more efficient.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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Prune branches selectively rather than shearing indiscriminately.—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Jan. 2025
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Photographs from The Courier Journal's archives show the aftermath of the bridge shearing the tops from large vehicles as early as 1978.—
Marina Johnson,
The Courier-Journal,
27 Dec. 2024
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His logic for ripping Taylor Swift and Caitlin Clark for doing nothing more than watching a Chiefs game made no sense at all.—
Bob Raissman,
New York Daily News,
25 Jan. 2025
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In floor remarks Saturday morning, Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer ripped into the Trump administration for the move, saying that the dismissals are a possible violation of federal law.—
Katherine Faulders,
ABC News,
25 Jan. 2025
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Giants starter Jason Pinnock was cut while playing under Manuel for the Jets in 2021.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
22 Jan. 2025
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Though Trump promised to bring down interest rates on the campaign trail, the president does not directly impact monetary policy, and the Fed many not cut interest rates again for a few months.—
Samantha Delouya,
CNN,
22 Jan. 2025
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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
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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 Feb. 2025.
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