cross-examined

verb

past tense of cross-examine
as in examined

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  1. examined
  2. bombarded
  3. interrogated
  4. besieged
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  • Voter records will next be examined in DuPage County, then Kendall and Will counties.
    — Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Safety is tops in Tampa, with the 19th-lowest property crime rate among cities examined by WalletHub.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of examined
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  • Monday’s attack was the sixth straight day that Russia bombarded Kyiv.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Over billions of years, this wind has bombarded every body in the vicinity of the Sun, including Earth’s Moon.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of bombarded
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  • Issa Abdel-Al, a local official in the village, said Israeli forces raided the area early Thursday, interrogated residents, and seized a member of the municipal council and two other local men, farmers who kept livestock and bees.
    — Fadi Tawil, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Some years ago, when a foreign tourist was seen recording a video on a street in Beijing, he was stopped and interrogated by several dama wearing red armbands.
    — Jonathan Flint, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of interrogated
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  • In recent months, Israeli settlers have repeatedly besieged the village of Qusra, defying orders from the authorities to leave the area and trying to force Palestinian families, some of whom are also American citizens, out.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
  • There has been a spate of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank, and the village of Qusra has been besieged by Israeli settlers for weeks.
    — F. Brinley Bruton, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2026
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“Cross-examined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cross-examined. Accessed 6 Sep. 2026.

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