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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cross-examined
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Our quantitative analysis examined millions of records from 2015 to 2022.—
Gidon Jakar,
The Conversation,
5 Feb. 2026 -
In the study, researchers examined health records from more than 800 people with an average age of 56 in five countries with moderate to severe aortic regurgitation.—
Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
5 Feb. 2026
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Customers today are bombarded with brands on their Instagram feeds, creating a new competitor.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
6 Feb. 2026
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Many of us are bombarded with emails or text messages designed to lure us to a website or engage in a conversation that’s almost certainly designed to separate us from our money or private information.—
Larry Magid,
Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2026
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Once in Texas, he was kept in chains for 16 hours and interrogated about his refugee application before being released without documents from a detention center in Houston, the lawsuit said.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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In the wake of her murder -- and without forensic evidence or new leads -- hundreds of Black men were detained and interrogated, according to The Innocence Project.—
Deena Zaru,
ABC News,
22 Jan. 2026
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The militants at the time besieged it for months before being pushed back.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Jan. 2026
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To watch Herbert’s film is like watching a report on a place that has subsequently been besieged.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2026
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