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- verb Present participle of
transect .
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Examples
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His wrist bent improbably as he tried to aim down through his head instead of aiming straight across the brain, transecting it.
In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010
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His wrist bent improbably as he tried to aim down through his head instead of aiming straight across the brain, transecting it.
In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010
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His wrist bent improbably as he tried to aim down through his head instead of aiming straight across the brain, transecting it.
In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010
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The landscape is relatively flat with flooded plains and many small rivers transecting the region.
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However, the dry riverbeds transecting the area are the lifelines of the desert.
Kaokoveld desert 2008
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Look at a profile of “clean” temperature records transecting, for example, from Morro Bay to Death Valley in an ideal world, where such a thing might actually exist.
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In a strange way, from the king ` s angle, the English Channel was more like a river, constantly transecting across it.
Martin Luther 2004
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They had taken that path, and eventually came to another transecting it.
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But the closed shutters on the houseboats and the lines of ducks and geese transecting the sun made something sink in my heart, as though I were the last man standing on earth.
Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002
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But the closed shutters on the houseboats and the lines of ducks and geese transecting the sun made something sink in my heart, as though I were the last man standing on earth.
Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002
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