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  • adjective Alternative spelling of cross-cultural.

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Examples

  • I needed to redefine myself as a crosscultural fusion artist, to make Tagore's music sexy.

    Following Her Song Around the World Vibhuti Patel 2010

  • The cultural shift may startle Americans and Europeans who slept in the insulation of their dominance, but the dealers and collectors aware that art knows no borders have been keenly alert to the artists who, for at least the last two decades, have been sending out the roots of crosscultural exchange necessary to forming an expanding, interdependent, and symbiotic global network.

    G. Roger Denson: China Takes Top Spot in Art Auction Sales Away From the US & UK -- What It Means for Global Culture G. Roger Denson 2011

  • The cultural shift may startle Americans and Europeans who slept in the insulation of their dominance, but the dealers and collectors aware that art knows no borders have been keenly alert to the artists who, for at least the last two decades, have been sending out the roots of crosscultural exchange necessary to forming an expanding, interdependent, and symbiotic global network.

    G. Roger Denson: China Takes Top Spot in Art Auction Sales Away From the US & UK -- What It Means for Global Culture G. Roger Denson 2011

  • That crosscultural/linguistic moment can be collision or creation or conflagration or commingling, but mostly I think it's all those things and more.

    Guest blogger - Megan Abbott 2008

  • [They] hope to build a world community through crosscultural storytelling and the magic of shadow theater.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Heather McDougal 2007

  • [They] hope to build a world community through crosscultural storytelling and the magic of shadow theater.

    The Adventures of Prince Achmed (and other shadow beings) Heather McDougal 2007

  • So when I find a triliteral root in Semitic languages meaning 'to rejoice' Aramaic hd', Ugaritic ḫdw, Akkadian ḫdū, which in its substantivized form becomes Akkadian muḫaddū 'causing joy', I wonder a little if we have another instance of prehistorical crosscultural contact that's been blurred by internal Pre-IE changes like Syncope since the time of its borrowing.

    Enticed by a drunken thought 2008

  • So when I find a triliteral root in Semitic languages meaning 'to rejoice' Aramaic hd', Ugaritic ḫdw, Akkadian ḫdū, which in its substantivized form becomes Akkadian muḫaddū 'causing joy', I wonder a little if we have another instance of prehistorical crosscultural contact that's been blurred by internal Pre-IE changes like Syncope since the time of its borrowing.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • Graffiti looked like an illegible confusion of tongues to outsiders, but to those in the know it was a language of an uneasy unity, the intensely creative product of crosscultural contamination powered by fierce competition.

    The Pirate’s Dilemma Matt Mason 2008

  • Since a global VW has to work in a crosscultural fashion the "Community custom and practice" approach is quite insufficient and probably contradictionary which is where a reasonable EULA can create a shared baseline.

    Anti-Social Contracts 2007

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