cross-examined

past tense of cross-examine

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cross-examined
Verb
  • In the new study, researchers examined bone marrow stem cells donated by patients undergoing hip replacement surgery.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Insurance is becoming more expensive with fewer options A 2025 report from the Treasury Department examined insurance data trends from 330 insurers, covering more than 246 million homeowners insurance policies across the country from 2018 to 2022.
    Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 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
  • Kyiv, Ukraine — Kyiv was bombarded overnight by Russia’s second-biggest aerial attack since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with at least 21 people killed, including four children, according to officials.
    Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Since the initial petition for a union vote in January, workers have filed at least five unfair labor practice charges against BlueOval SK claiming the company interrogated, surveilled and discharged workers unfairly.
    Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 29 Aug. 2025
  • In 2020, state security officers strip-searched and handcuffed Jiménez Enoa, interrogated him for five hours, and threatened him and his family over his writings about life in Cuba in his monthly Washington Post column.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Landslide in western Sudan kills at least 1,000 A landslide in western Sudan killed at least 1,000 people, intensifying hardship in a country besieged by years of civil war.
    Tasneem Nashrulla, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Validated Insights To even the most casual observer, these must feel like belligerent times in higher education – surrounded by fires, besieged, and under crushing market pressures all at once.
    Derek Newton, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Cross-examined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cross-examined. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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