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crosscut

[kraws-kuht, kros-] / ˈkrɔsˌkʌt, ˈkrɒs- /


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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

Howe and Stokes both grew up in Portland, and neither had a background in timber cutting, let alone using crosscut saws - the 19th-century tool known by lumberjacks as a “misery whip.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 28, 2018

Working with crosscut saws, shovels and a combination digging-cutting tool called a Pulaski, they sought to starve fires using similar methods to those of contemporary smoke jumpers.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2017

I wouldn’t have been more scared if someone had thrown a crosscut saw at me.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" 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

The changing circulation patterns also lead to more crosscutting wind shear, which can stymie storm development.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 21, 2023

The waters of Scrubgrass Bend, for instance, were crosscutting over Scrubgrass Towhead in one league-wide sheet, and Islands Seventy-this-and-that and Islands Sixty-that-and-this were under them to their tree-tops.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable




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