How to Use intersectional in a Sentence

intersectional

adjective
Definition of intersectionalnext
  • Place herbaceous and intersectional roots so the plump pink or white buds near the top are ½ inch below the soil surface.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Given the lack of intersectional games, what role, if any, can perceived strength of schedule play in the process?
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2020
  • When the work is intersectional without being showy, that’s the best.
    — Vulture, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The past two years have kept me on my toes as the pandemic has brought the cracks of intersectional gender equity to the surface.
    — Katica Roy, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2022
  • To be fair, the movement has made a conscious effort to be intersectional.
    — Valentina Zarya, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Neither game was close, but this was a great intersectional split.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 12 May 2020
  • But this is the Ducks’ only opportunity to win the kind of big, intersectional matchup that would put them on the playoff radar.
    — oregonlive, 29 Aug. 2019
  • It’s always great to have an intersectional tome on hand.
    — Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Over the course of its three-season run, One Day at a Time was praised for it's intersectional approach to issues like mental health and queerness.
    — Allie Gemmill, Teen Vogue, 14 Mar. 2019
  • Now what's really fascinating is that there was sort of a gap between the intersectional left and the Bernie Sanders left.
    — Fox News, 6 July 2018
  • The picture looks much bleaker through the intersectional lens.
    — Katica Roy, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2022
  • There’s space and room for us and our Blackness does not look all the same, our Blackness looks different, our Blackness is intersectional.
    — Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 12 May 2021
  • Yeah, Beyond Meat is much more intersectional in terms of its impact.
    — Brendan Doherty, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • Both use food as a tool for protest and intersectional equity.
    — Tunde Wey, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Oregon at Ohio State and Washington at Michigan are set for next month, while 68 future intersectional matchups through the next decade have been scheduled among the leagues.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The new imagery also spits in the eye of good taste, and the industry’s current intersectional-feminist mood.
    — Eviana Hartman, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2018
  • As with so many things, how climate change affects health is intersectional.
    — refinery29.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Right now wellness to me, with my curated lens, is Black and is more intersectional in terms of body type, hair type, ethnicity.
    — Amira Rasool, Glamour, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Of course, Grease is prime IP for Paramount, and the studio didn't splash out all that bread just to make a niche musical drama about intersectional feminism.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2023
  • While the bill is an important step forward, the roots of anti-Asian bias are complex, intersectional, and steeped in history.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 19 May 2021
  • But the work is far from over and the conversation must continue to become more intersectional.
    — Leah Juliett, Glamour, 4 June 2018
  • This critique of the intersectional oppression, in France, of post-Soviet bears, scans as firmly tongue-in-cheek.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2021
  • In the wake of Black Lives Matter, an intersectional approach to this work relating to race and gender has rightly taken its place at the front of the conversation.
    — Melissa Silverstein, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The greatest intersectional rivalry in college sports recently received the twice-over, thanks to one of its own.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The political aim of the intersectional Left is to blur these distinctions.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Climate change is very intersectional, from food to women's rights.
    — ABC News, 22 Apr. 2022
  • For me, intersectional artists are going to really make a wave that is both social and economic change.
    — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2019
  • In order for the feminist movement to truly be progressive and intersectional, white women must face this fact and begin to take on their load of work.
    — Rachel Elizabeth Cargle, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Aug. 2018
  • For now, tensions in the intersectional movement will simmer.
    — Samantha Eyler, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2017
  • There’s a need for this conversation to be intersectional.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024

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