cross-examines

Definition of cross-examinesnext
present tense third-person singular of cross-examine

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cross-examines
Verb
  • Being reflective – examines one’s own assumptions and thinking habits to build more constructive patterns of thought and behavior.
    Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • The plan examines how natural disasters could impact residents, homes, infrastructure and essential facilities, while identifying ways to reduce damage and strengthen community resilience.
    Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 29 May 2026
Verb
  • The two armies remain locked in battle on the roughly 750-mile front line, while Russia bombards civilian areas of Ukraine daily.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The two armies remain locked in battle on the roughly 750-mile front line, while Russia bombards civilian areas of Ukraine daily.
    Jamey Keaten, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Barragán originally set out to find the man who scammed his mother by posing as a handsome American soldier, but now interrogates four of these young men, illuminating their psychological tactics, economic hardships and moral dilemmas.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 30 May 2026
  • Advent has effectively digitized its own intellectual history — its wins, its misses, its assumptions — and turned it into a live analytical layer that interrogates every new deal that comes before the committee.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 May 2026
Verb
  • The quality adjustment problem does not reside in nominal GDP, which simply asks what was spent, earned, or produced in current dollars, but rather in the deflator applied to convert those nominal figures into real terms.
    James Broughel, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
  • Marlon asks, pointing to an artificial division between the Wayans' sketch comedy series, In Living Color, and Thompson's longtime home, Saturday Night Live.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 6 June 2026
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“Cross-examines.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cross-examines. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.

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