intersect
verb (used with object)
to cut or divide by passing through or across.
intersected
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past participleof intersect.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof intersect.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
intersectverb (used with object)to cut or divide by passing through or across.
Example Sentences
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Police effectively asked Google to look through a vast archive of human movement and identify which lives intersected with a particular patch of pavement at a particular moment in time.
From Slate ● May 20, 2026
She describes their sparkling years of early adulthood, when their lives intersected with an array of luminaries that included Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
Elsbeth creator Jonathan Tolins says the script was always planned to be bold, and though real life intersected in uncanny ways, the episode wasn’t rewritten to reflect it.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2025
Sheikh Radwan includes the areas of Abu Iskandar, al-Tawam, and al-Saftawi, and is intersected by al-Jalaa Street, a vital artery linking central Gaza City with its northern districts.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025
I lived in Violetwood on Vulcan Road, which was intersected by Verdant Road—VUR-dunt, as in green or lush, but I never heard anyone, even my parents, call it anything but ver-DANT.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
