The phrase "across the word in a" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete thought and lacks context, making it difficult to determine when it could be used.
Example: "I found a mistake across the word in a document."
Alternatives: "throughout the text in a" or "within the phrase in a".
Five years ago, a woman who was playing Scrabble with a Holocaust survivor came across the word in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary and complained, and before long Hasbro was confronted with protests from the Anti-Defamation League.
Many years ago I came across the word ineffable in a book and, unsure of its meaning, looked it up in the dictionary.
I always like to come across the word "fat" in a snug, happy, adjectival nook somewhere.
I first came across the word medlar in a novel by Candia McWilliam, who likes to use old-fashioned, Victorian constructions: "bletted medlars," in her book, turned out to mean "rotting apples".
Further wording revisions were made to response options associated with three items (sleep, disposition, and activity) to mirror the direction of the other scales and to maintain consistency across the wording in the response scales included in the final version.
These measures include associate production norms, contextual relatedness in terms of latent semantic analysis distance, total number of letters, phrase-level usage frequency, and word-level usage frequency summed across the words in each pair.
The light box called Stay, for instance, features the word in large black lettering across a swath of yellow light.
To knock out the S process, word order was scrambled across the 90 words in a run.
Marbles comes across as Einstein whilst Arbour comes across as Cosmo Kramer shouting the N word in a comedy club.
We came across the word "un-American" used in a way that perfectly illustrates its unsuitibility as a committee label.
