crisscross
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"If we wait, probably in three years, we will not have this landscape as we see it today," environmental activist Zenepa Lika told AFP as she stood above the overgrown channels which crisscross the site.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Shares of the railroad operator, whose rail lines crisscross much of the eastern U.S., were up around 7% after hours on Wednesday.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
Use the tines of a fork to flatten and indent crisscross patterns over the tops of each cookie.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2025
The study shows wildebeest frequently crisscross the Sand River and the areas surrounding the Ritz-Carlton, even though they avoid forested areas nestling the camp due to the risk of predators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
First of all, you couldn’t get much sap out of a single sapodilla tree, so we had to crisscross town, scouring streets for dilly trees.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
As a founding partner and chief product officer of Kim Kardashian’s Skims and co-founder and CEO of Khloé Kardashian’s Good American, Grede sports power suits on podcasts and crisscrosses the globe for business engagements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
Feet up on the table, coffee mugs in hand, a bit of casual banter crisscrosses the room.
From BBC ● May 23, 2023
And while he has achieved more than even he thought possible, Cates finds himself on dual missions as he crisscrosses the world.
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2023
As Dragonwagon writes in the new edition, “A cookbook — if people actually make its recipes — has transcendent, earthy aliveness, a sacramental connective tissue that crisscrosses linear time as, I believe, nothing else does.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2023
All around, crooked branches like witches’ fingers make patterns where the sun crisscrosses through.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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