cross-examine

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Recent Examples of cross-examine Cross ruled Bray's testimony could not be presented at a new trial because defense attorneys didn't have the necessary information to properly cross-examine Bray at the 1996 trial. Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
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Verb
  • Immediately after the ball landed, Boone emerged from the dugout and asked crew chief Adrian Johnson to examine the bat.
    Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Mayoral race spotlights local option taxes The City Council authorized a $200,000 contract with the Citizens Research Council of Michigan earlier this year to examine the feasibility of local option taxes.
    Malachi Barrett, Freep.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The lawsuit alleges that in recent months, ICE agents have been accompanying personnel from the Office of Refugee Resettlement during routine meetings with children and seeking to interrogate them without an attorney present.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Participation alone seems to be the end goal, the assemblage of a cacophony of voices without any avenues to interrogate the way power is shared or negotiated in collective spaces.
    Kate Wagner, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The likelihood is that your HNWI customers are time-poor people bombarded with hundreds of requests every day.
    Matteo Atti, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The system reportedly relies on a particle accelerator to bombard molten lithium salt with high-energy particles, generating neutrons that, in turn, trigger reactions to produce tritium.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025

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“Cross-examine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cross-examine. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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