How to Use cross-cultural in a Sentence

cross-cultural

adjective
  • Serve warm with vanilla ice cream for a cross-cultural treat.
    — David Nikel, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • As usual, the question came up, but this time it was framed as a cross-cultural question.
    — Stephanie Judd, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The cross-cultural signifiers don’t end with the casting.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Its cross-cultural world-building—etched, with shabbily retro flair, in boxy frames of grainy 16-mm.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • And clearly, there are plenty of adults who could also use a little more cross-cultural learning to open their hearts and minds.
    — Britt Hogue, Baltimore Sun, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The cross-cultural encounter begins in the year 1600, when a battered European ship emerges out of the pre-dawn fog off the coast of a Japanese fishing village.
    — TIME, 7 Feb. 2024
  • This cross-cultural funerary practice could account for the presence of the weapon in a Przeworsk burial.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Chicano organizers have traveled to Gaza and the West Bank for decades in cross-cultural exchanges.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • That’s a good thing, because by sheer numbers, this kind of cross-cultural contact happens on a much larger scale than any other.
    — Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 30 June 2024
  • Perhaps a fear of offense kept Stella from really going for the killer cross-cultural joke.
    — Eric Deggans, NPR, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Take an early cross-cultural conversation between Goodie and Mitch as the two hang out at the casino.
    — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Perhaps one reason the two clicked is that the composer has had lots of practice in forging cross-cultural connections.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 2024
  • The logo — a coffee bean resting against the A, and the Italian spelling of caffe — suggests an attention to detail and a cross-cultural approach that is promising.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2024
  • That finding is cross-cultural, across languages, across people groups.
    — David E. Clementson, The Conversation, 16 May 2024
  • But her World Cup championships and Olympic gold medals are only part of what's made Rapinoe one of the most important cross-cultural figures of the 21st century.
    — Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 10 July 2023
  • What good is served by severing such cross-cultural exchange?
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Among other ideas, de Coubertin stressed the Olympics as a means to create cross-cultural understanding and promote peace among nations.
    — Debbie Sharnak & Yannick Kluch / Made By History, TIME, 30 July 2024
  • Simple steps, such as learning about other cultures, keeping an open mind and being adaptable, are a great start to cross-cultural success.
    — Aaron Poynton, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Oh, Canada Pablo Berger depicts the value of cross-cultural exchange.
    — Armond White, National Review, 8 Jan. 2025
  • How to Use It Tofu’s beauty lies in its cross-cultural applications.
    — Andrea Nguyen, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Erik Pepper, one of the performers who held posts inside the dragon at the pre-parade event, appreciated the cross-cultural bonds the parade promotes.
    — Ella Polak, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The history of hip-hop is still, at its core, Black history, which has shifted and evolved with years of commercialization and cross-cultural exchange.
    — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • This cross-cultural culinary exchange is near to Crystal's heart, and she's applied it to her own life and circle of friends by encouraging them to try cooking Chinese food at home.
    — Moná Thomas, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The show focuses on the cross-cultural culinary connections (say that five times fast) of U.S.-Mexico border communities, and the chimichanga is a poster child for those ties, along with burritos and nachos.
    — Joe Yonan, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Five months after its debut in Lincoln Heights, cross-cultural cafe Arroz and Fun is opening its second floor and launching a series of pop-ups, collabs and gallery shows with special menu items.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
  • And what are the lessons about cross-cultural communication that leaders – political as well as corporate – can and should take away from JFK’s call to look inward?
    — Pia Lauritzen, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • My sister, a scholar of cross-cultural psychology, once posited to me that Zambian time is rooted in a social value.
    — Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The account, which starts in the sixteenth century, is one of both endless conflict and cross-cultural accommodation.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
  • This is a definite must for readers, young and old, offering a compelling story that resonates with the human spirit and the beauty of cross-cultural connections.
    — Roxsy Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • When putting together the exhibition, curator Sol Jung wanted to emphasize the cross-cultural nature of the objects.
    — Nathan Pugh, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2025

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