cuts across
Bridges different groups
Cuts across means to extend beyond usual boundaries or divisions, affecting or involving multiple categories that would normally be separate: The issue cuts across party lines.
It can also mean to take a diagonal shortcut through an area: We cut across the park to save time.
- intersectsMeets at a point
- overlappingCovering part of another
- interdisciplinaryCombining distinct fields
- crossesIntersecting line pairs
- straddlesSpans with legs apart
convergence · universal · cross-pollination · party lines · junction · traverse · runs through · transcend · goes beyond · commonality · permeates · bisect · passes · cross-section · synthesis · bridge · unify · crossroad
cuts acrossruns along
Extends alongside something
follows · skirts · goes around · circumvents · avoids
cuts acrossdivides
Separates into parts
separates · fragments · compartmentalizes · segregates · partitions
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