CROSS-EXAMINES Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

cross-examines

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present tense third-person singular of cross-examine

as in examines

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The report also examines specific price moves from the Texas Senate primary contests.

— Garrett Downs, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
Rendering examines how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change-makers wielding the technology for good and ill.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2026

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Kyiv urgently needs more interceptors before winter, when Russia routinely bombards its power grid, but the demands of the Iran war and slow output of the sophisticated interceptors have left Ukraine short and vulnerable.

— Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
But his aides insisted the dangers play no role in his policymaking decisions, even as the US bombards Iran.

— Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 15 July 2026

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One day scholars will teach Lepore’s work alongside Arendt’s, seeing that Lepore interrogates not simply a modern moment, but traces our current machine age back to the 17th-century conceit for artifice as improvement.

— Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026
Writer-director Ari Aster interrogates not just the social and political turmoil of COVID-19, but also the way social media can exacerbate that unraveling of collective neuroses.

— Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026

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