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"They used to teach us word by word. They taught us how to cross the road. Look left, right."
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Driving one afternoon, I come across a box turtle trying to cross the road.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
At this point we’re texting congrats on things or wishing each other luck, and understanding that our audiences really do cross.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Spa Hyu looks like a cross between a bathhouse and a tropical forest — as designed by Willy Wonka.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
For a moment, I felt cross with her.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
Attendees of the vigil laid flowers at the crosses in a makeshift cemetery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Each time an auto part crosses the bridge, Washington will get paid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Aguirre replaced Mora and goal-scorer Julián Quiñones, bringing on an attacking lineup that focused on sending in crosses, which the English defense easily cleared.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
He would drag England players with him, giving left-back Gallardo time and space to make dangerous crosses.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
So when it rains in New York, nobody crosses at the crosswalks.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
He enjoys playing on the front foot and much like Alexander-Arnold, he is an excellent crosser of the ball, adept at delivering into dangerous zones inside the opposition's six-yard box.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2025
Today Kim Kardashian is a fashion mogul, prison reform advocate and crosser of picket lines.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2023
Future first-round draft pick Quentin Johnston took a short crosser from Duggan and turned it up the sideline for a 76-yard score that put the Frogs up 10.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
Just for good measure, the Tar Heels repeated the process in the 74th minute, but with Libby Moore serving the crosser.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2022
“But if I do, I shall be crosser still. I can never bear to think of you all there without me.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
“You’re the crossest person in it!” returned Amy, washing out the sum that was all wrong with the tears that had fallen on her slate.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
But that was the very thing that made me crossest about her carelessness.
From The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted by Barrett, Katharine Ellis
Oweneen the Sprat is the name he goes by, and he's the crossest little thief in the Barony.
From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin
Why, he's the ugliest-tempered, crossest, hatefullest, disagreeablest old snapping-turtle ever you saw.
From Sharing Her Crime by Fleming, May Agnes
There this Princess, the crossest and most disagreeable of all the disagreeable six, was curled up in bed and slumbering cosily.
From Sky Island Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after Their Visit to the Sea Fairies by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
MarketWatch: When did it become clear that AI had crossed into something fundamentally new?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Those who crossed the border illegally or who are undocumented can apply after being placed into removal proceedings, where they make their case to an immigration judge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Reilly, a working-class product of Oakland who crossed the Bay and scaled the heights of San Francisco business, culture and politics, died earlier this month at age 79.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
The 27-year-old UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider crossed the line on Paris' Champs-Elysees in the peloton, to join Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain as the endurance event's most successful male riders.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
I crossed my arms over my chest, beginning to shiver.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
Teen charged over record crossing on 'mega dinghy'
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Galaxies continue to emit light, but that light may spend billions of years crossing the cosmos before reaching us.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
According to Homeland Security, members of the Trusted Traveler Program “use expedited clearance lanes on arrival at U.S. airports and when crossing international land and sea borders.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Multiply that by orders of magnitude when a wildfire crossing an urban interface is left unchecked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
“I lift my father’s barbells,” I said, crossing my fingers.
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
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