"cross paths" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crosses paths",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossing paths",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossed paths",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossed paths",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "cross paths"
      },
      "expansion": "cross paths (third-person singular simple present crosses paths, present participle crossing paths, simple past and past participle crossed paths)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004 August 5, SFGate.com",
          "text": "Presidential campaigns cross paths in up-for-grabs Iowa.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 October 2, \"Las Vegas shooting: At least 58 dead at Mandalay Bay Hotel\", in bbc.com, BBC",
          "text": "Paddock came from the small town of Mesquite, some 60 miles (100 km) north-east of Las Vegas, and had resided in the hotel since 28 September. Police in Mesquite have searched his premises and recovered a number of weapons. But they say he had not crossed paths with the police in the past."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be, by chance, in the same physical place at the same time, as a result of two completely separate journeys; to encounter or meet each other."
      ],
      "id": "en-cross_paths-en-verb-OqftlJym",
      "links": [
        [
          "by chance",
          "by chance"
        ],
        [
          "encounter",
          "encounter"
        ],
        [
          "meet",
          "meet"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, of two things or people) To be, by chance, in the same physical place at the same time, as a result of two completely separate journeys; to encounter or meet each other."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of two things or people"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cross paths"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crosses paths",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossing paths",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossed paths",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossed paths",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "cross paths"
      },
      "expansion": "cross paths (third-person singular simple present crosses paths, present participle crossing paths, simple past and past participle crossed paths)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004 August 5, SFGate.com",
          "text": "Presidential campaigns cross paths in up-for-grabs Iowa.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 October 2, \"Las Vegas shooting: At least 58 dead at Mandalay Bay Hotel\", in bbc.com, BBC",
          "text": "Paddock came from the small town of Mesquite, some 60 miles (100 km) north-east of Las Vegas, and had resided in the hotel since 28 September. Police in Mesquite have searched his premises and recovered a number of weapons. But they say he had not crossed paths with the police in the past."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be, by chance, in the same physical place at the same time, as a result of two completely separate journeys; to encounter or meet each other."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "by chance",
          "by chance"
        ],
        [
          "encounter",
          "encounter"
        ],
        [
          "meet",
          "meet"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, of two things or people) To be, by chance, in the same physical place at the same time, as a result of two completely separate journeys; to encounter or meet each other."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of two things or people"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cross paths"
}