CROSS-EXAMINING Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

cross-examining

verb

present participle of cross-examine

as in examining

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So traders looking to get an edge began closely examining Ronaldo’s long, storied career for evidence of crying.

— Jon Sarlin, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
This premise, though intuitive, rests on an assumption worth examining, which is that a device only competes for the mind’s resources when it is actively being used.

— Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

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Peter Kollanyi / Bloomberg via Getty Images file Pro-Russian groups are bombarding popular AI systems with propaganda to get chatbots to repeat Kremlin talking points, senior European officials say, raising concerns ahead of America’s midterm elections over efforts to silently influence voters.

— Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 26 June 2026
In that essay, Troemel argued that artists were bombarding the internet with their work, and that this constant posting represented an essential shift.

— Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 16 June 2026

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Consumers are becoming increasingly comfortable interrogating formulations rather than simply admiring them, and that changes the relationship between brand and buyer in ways the industry is only beginning to understand.

— Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
But the filmmaker proves more interested in interrogating that ethos than recreating it, and few horror mythologies are better suited to exploring betrayal and regret than one built around the refusal to let the dead remain dead.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 July 2026

Definition of interrogating

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Boris Yeltsin, to everyone’s shock, had then walked through the crowd and climbed one of the Soviet tanks besieging him.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
Israel tried to take over Gaza City before in this war, besieging it and launching raids in its streets, but tens of thousands of people remained.

— Aya Batrawy, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025

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Iran struck a pumping station on Saudi’s pipeline to the Red Sea in April, which slashed throughput by 700,000 bpd.

— Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 16 July 2026
Doctors soon discovered a dangerous buildup of fluid surrounding Indiana's heart that was preventing it from pumping properly, requiring emergency surgery.

— Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026

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