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- noun Plural form of
crossing .
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Examples
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Hundreds of people gathered alongside the track, standing at train crossings, in backyards and on rooftops.
Watching the Train Roll By - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Hundreds of people gathered alongside the track, standing at train crossings, in backyards and on rooftops.
Watching the Train Roll By - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Right now what they are really looking for at border crossings is illegal arms, hand grenades and the like.
Three Dogs 2008
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One of the problems at the few accessible border crossings is that Syrian workers are swamping them.
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And they are pedestrain crossings throughout this section of road.
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Illegal crossings from the Canadian Border (5000 miles shared with the US) into the U.S. numbers in the neighborhood of around 40,000 per year.
Waldo Jaquith - What’s wrong with securing the borders? 2006
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These “unintended consequences” of the Clinton-era lockdown — grisly border deaths and no letup in crossings, and all the bad publicity thereof — sparked some transitory hope that an obsolete policy of denial would be replaced by something more pragmatic.
Exodus 2006
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These “unintended consequences” of the Clinton-era lockdown — grisly border deaths and no letup in crossings, and all the bad publicity thereof — sparked some transitory hope that an obsolete policy of denial would be replaced by something more pragmatic.
Exodus 2006
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While illegal crossings from the mexican border (2000 miles shared with the U.S.) number about 3 million.
Waldo Jaquith - What’s wrong with securing the borders? 2006
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Still, one of the most important pieces of advice that I can offer regarding border crossings is to always maintain your cool.
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