How to Use in the crosshairs in a Sentence
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Their revenue is now in the crosshairs.
—Deirdre Bosa,jasmine Wu, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026
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Best of luck to readers caught in the crosshairs.
—Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
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Read why she’s now caught in the crosshairs of cancel culture.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 20 June 2024
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The nation's fourth-biggest city is in the crosshairs of Beryl.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
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But two firms that are already in the crosshairs have opted to fight instead.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 29 Mar. 2025
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The last few weeks have put Bloom’s judgment squarely in the crosshairs.
—Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
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Booze is one of the many products caught in the crosshairs of the trade war between the two countries.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 8 Mar. 2025
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And so gay Republicans were caught in the crosshairs of that.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 30 July 2024
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The group had ended up in the crosshairs of a shootout between rival cartel gangs.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2023
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Are any members of new coach Brandon Moore’s staff in the crosshairs?
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
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This isn't the first time Mellanox has been in the crosshairs of Beijing.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025
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Now, capital flows between the world’s two biggest economies are in the crosshairs.
—Jenny Leonard, Bloomberg.com, 20 Apr. 2023
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That ruling put Citgo squarely in the crosshairs.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
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And, yes, there was some smack talk, with Andreessen Horowitz mostly in the crosshairs.
—Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2024
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At the time, the Steelers’ season was at a crossroads, and their coach was in the crosshairs.
—Mike Defabo, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2026
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Major aerospace suppliers are also in the crosshairs of the trade war.
—Gabrielle Fonrouge,annika Kim Constantino,leslie Josephs,ari Levy,amelia Lucas,melissa Repko,hugh Son,michael Wayland, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2025
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Parrots aren’t the only pricey companions in the crosshairs of pet thieves in recent years.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
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As the war in Yemen stretches into its ninth year, children remain caught in the crosshairs.
—Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
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But there was no time to treat them while the convoy remained in the crosshairs of Russian artillery.
—Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 26 June 2022
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In fact, the series hasn’t even started, and the Warriors are already in the crosshairs.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2025
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That would put Thanksgiving right in the crosshairs, with the busiest time of the year to travel less than three weeks away.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2025
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This is not the first time healthcare systems have been in the crosshairs of cybercriminals.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 May 2025
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This is not the first time Big Bend has found itself in the crosshairs of immigration.
—Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
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Prosecutors set out to prove that Herbert was aware that his estranged wife was in the crosshairs.
—Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024
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The large downward revisions put the BLS in the crosshairs.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2025
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But an endurance athlete ending up in the crosshairs due to edits on Wikipedia—that truly is a first.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2024
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The premiere date was in the crosshairs of the looming Screen Actors Guild strike.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 9 July 2023
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However, many genuine accounts get caught in the crosshairs and end up being disabled.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2025
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Nobody has been caught in the crosshairs of Russell’s antics as much as Jake Davis.
—Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 29 Feb. 2024
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The loan-repayment cap was only the latest provision in the crosshairs.
—Dallas News, 16 May 2022
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