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
Throughout this thing, Thompson is dropping explanatory information and montages that are crosscut with more information.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2021
He brought to the club the skills to work a crosscut saw and swing a pulaski - a wildland firefighter’s hand tool that’s been in use for more than a century.
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
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
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
