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• The dollar stores may be right in the crosshairs next week.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 2 June 2025
• Samuels has been in the crosshairs since early this year.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• The nation's fourth-biggest city is in the crosshairs of Beryl.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
• The Midwest and the Great Lakes are in the crosshairs Friday morning.
  — Max Golembo, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2024
• 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
• The last few weeks have put Bloom’s judgment squarely in the crosshairs.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
• The premiere date was in the crosshairs of the looming Screen Actors Guild strike.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 9 July 2023
• Hitler’s next move was clear to anyone who could read a map: Poland was now in the crosshairs.
  — TIME, 16 Apr. 2024
• Read why she’s now caught in the crosshairs of cancel culture.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 20 June 2024
• Are any members of new coach Brandon Moore’s staff in the crosshairs?
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
• And, yes, there was some smack talk, with Andreessen Horowitz mostly in the crosshairs.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2024
• In fact, the series hasn’t even started, and the Warriors are already in the crosshairs.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2025
• And once again, New York City’s public schools — the largest system in the nation — are stuck in the crosshairs.
  — Michael A. Rebell, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2025
• And so gay Republicans were caught in the crosshairs of that.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 30 July 2024
• Fintech isn’t the only sector in the crosshairs right now.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
• But two firms that are already in the crosshairs have opted to fight instead.
  — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 29 Mar. 2025
• The group had ended up in the crosshairs of a shootout between rival cartel gangs.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2023
• Nobody has been caught in the crosshairs of Russell’s antics as much as Jake Davis.
  — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 29 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Chicago has often been in the crosshairs of the White House since Trump’s second term started.
  — Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2025
• As the war in Yemen stretches into its ninth year, children remain caught in the crosshairs.
  — Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Now, capital flows between the world’s two biggest economies are in the crosshairs.
  — Jenny Leonard, Bloomberg.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• Second, the post-election period is now in the crosshairs.
  — Miles Taylor, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
• Nvidia has been caught in the crosshairs of U.S.-China tensions over trade and technology.
  — Arjun Kharpal,evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 16 July 2025
• The trial in Dallas/Fort Worth puts Manna right in the crosshairs of one of its competitors.
  — Jonathan Keane, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• What else could one do in a ravaged land where fresh graves multiplied and civilians were in the crosshairs?
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
• Huawei had long been in the crosshairs of Washington as the sharpest tip of China’s tech industry.
  — Eva Dou, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
• Parrots aren’t the only pricey companions in the crosshairs of pet thieves in recent years.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
• Over the last few months, The Times has asked experts for guidance for employees and employers who find themselves in the crosshairs.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
• But by mid-March, we got caught in the crosshairs of the political fallout with higher education—$1 billion pulled from Cornell.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 June 2025