cross
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Similarly, we both embrace holy tradition, including the Bible, the church fathers and the seven ancient ecumenical councils, and we venerate the cross, Mary, saints, icons and holy relics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
UniCredit said it had received the authorization from the ECB to "cross the 30% equity participation threshold in Commerzbank AG... and to increase its stake further without upper limits".
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
The Dodgers failed Ohtani this summer, and now all that remains is for them to cross their collective fingers and hope for the best.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Private funding is on pace to cross $100 billion for the first time in history.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
I don’t know about the hot cross bun, though.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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“It crosses that border, it is a brand-new car,” Carter said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
Much of the crude that still crosses Hormuz no longer stays aboard the same tanker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Along the boundary with China, Kim's government has erected fences and installed cameras as well as strips of sand that preserve the footprints of anyone who crosses.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Death crosses aren’t necessarily good market-timing signals, but they help reinforce the idea that a new trend may have started.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
While we’re hugging, a thought crosses my mind.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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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
He was an adept crosser of high-traffic freeways — until he wasn’t.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 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
She pointed to a section of the fence, and I began leading the horses to it, while Ruth seemed to get crosser and crosser with me, saying I was doing everything wrong.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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“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
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At least there was Ellen to comfort her; gruff, matter-of-fact old Ellen, always at her crossest when most deeply moved.
From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
Why, he's the ugliest-tempered, crossest, hatefullest, disagreeablest old snapping-turtle ever you saw.
From Sharing Her Crime by May Agnes Fleming
The particular Sister whose drudge I was at that period was rather apt to be cross; and this was one of her crossest days.
From Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital by Ward Muir
He was a crossbow man,—the crossest one that ever lived.
From Davy and The Goblin What Followed Reading 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Edmund Birckhead Bensell
Last year, scientists warned that warm-water coral reefs had almost certainly crossed a point of no return as oceans warm beyond a level most can survive.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
None of its 2026 releases has crossed $100 million at the domestic box office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
North Korean troops crossed the line nine times in 2024, but that surged to 50 times this year, according to a South Korean lawmaker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
A few years ago, there’s no way that thought would’ve crossed his mind.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
At last we crossed a broad canal and I knew we had reached the fashionable suburb of Aerdenhout.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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During more than a decade of Britain’s tinkering and planning, China built the world’s highest bridge and Canada forged a river crossing to the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
In the last week of September, 31 ships a day made the crossing, compared with 138 before the war.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
In a follow-up post on Facebook, police warned some social media comments on the case "can be a crossing of the line and in the worst case, a criminal offense".
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Coissac said 150 of the people on the boat that sank off Djibouti had previously been turned back from Yemen but had attempted the crossing again.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
In case of war, Francis Gary Powers would be crossing the Arctic in the opposite direction.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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