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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of intersect.

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Examples

  • Next day we passed northwestward, through a plain intersected by numbers of small streams, flowing through deep canals of cut rock, which unite and form

    Life in the Rocky Mountains 1844

  • It was so happened my two jobs kind of intersected this morning.

    CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2003 2003

  • But I did feel a sense of shame, uncomfortably reminded of how we'd treated him -- there's nothing like the death of someone your life has only briefly intersected with to remind you of your mortality and fragility.

    Haroon Moghul: Finding Meaning In The Death Of A Teacher Haroon Moghul 2011

  • On Tuesday, look for Part 2, in which the couple recall their first attempt to marry and how their quest for a legal union intersected with their path to parenthood.

    Here Come The Brides! Follow One Lesbian Couple's Road To The Altar Annie Carroll 2011

  • But I did feel a sense of shame, uncomfortably reminded of how we'd treated him -- there's nothing like the death of someone your life has only briefly intersected with to remind you of your mortality and fragility.

    Haroon Moghul: Finding Meaning In The Death Of A Teacher Haroon Moghul 2011

  • But I did feel a sense of shame, uncomfortably reminded of how we'd treated him -- there's nothing like the death of someone your life has only briefly intersected with to remind you of your mortality and fragility.

    Haroon Moghul: Finding Meaning In The Death Of A Teacher Haroon Moghul 2011

  • Among the ways potential candidates 'lives have intersected with the orbit of Obama:

    'Short list' for court picks shows ties to Obama 2010

  • For me, these two definitions do not just create a crossroads of meaning when intersected but more so, the saliency of the connection is that one is a mircocosm standing in for the macrocosm.

    Maytha Alhassen: Love is... ? Maytha Alhassen 2012

  • The singularity point where all universes intersected was now a polyhedral globe and characters could be standing inside, outside, or anywhere and that would be the “floor” of the CROSSROADS for him or her.

    The Codex Continual » Bulwark Comics: CROSSROADS 2009

  • For me, these two definitions do not just create a crossroads of meaning when intersected but more so, the saliency of the connection is that one is a mircocosm standing in for the macrocosm.

    Maytha Alhassen: Love is... ? Maytha Alhassen 2012

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