cut across
Britishverb
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(intr) to be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations
opinion on European integration still cuts clean across party lines
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to cross or traverse, making a shorter route
she cut across the field quickly
Example Sentences
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The layoffs will hit Lucid’s engineers the hardest, with about 140 jobs being cut across software and hardware engineering teams.
From Los Angeles Times
Many of Monday’s moves roughly aligned with the situation outlined by Citrini, in which fast-advancing AI tools allow spending cuts across industries, sparking mass white-collar unemployment and in turn leading to financial contagion.
The headline insight: Indian philanthropy is not elite-led but mass, local and relational - driven by faith, face-to-face appeals and everyday obligation, cutting across income levels.
From BBC
Nevertheless, all American families have entertained themselves in some way, and some of the most popular forms, like movies and TV, cut across social divides.
These films cut across themes, genres and villains, and yet all tell us something about what it means to be an American, and the collective American head space at the time they were released.
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