crosscut
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“I don’t like the crosscut, because you’re relying on someone else.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
To lay out these events, the early scenes principally crosscut among three people.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
One day, her four-person crew hiked three miles into the woods toting a crosscut saw.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2021
“My father worked all day cutting wood with a crosscut saw,” Guy told me.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019
Papa said it would grow hair on a crosscut saw.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
But crosscutting concerns for months had made it impossible to gain traction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025
And yet, the series takes pains to connect them, thematically and visually, in the editing process, through crosscutting that links them throughout different periods of their lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
There’s the part at the end of the song that’s crosscutting between Harris and Evelyn, and Nathan Lane just floats this lovely falsetto at the end.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2023
Calm skies must also prevail because crosscutting winds called shear can rip holes in a nascent hurricane’s vortex.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 1, 2023
Begin sawing as in crosscutting, that is, at the farther corner with the handle end of the saw up, and gradually drop the handle.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
