CROSS-QUESTIONED Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

cross-questioned

verb

past tense of cross-question

as in examined

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Halima held Asho on her lap, the child wrapped in purple cloth, as a health worker examined her feet and lower legs.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026
Hafley said everything will be examined, and nothing is off the table.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of examined

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Writers are also being bombarded with offers to publish our next book, market our book, handle social media for us, represent us as agents, and get us book-to-movie deals with Netflix and Paramount.

— Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 13 Oct. 2026
At the outset of Wednesday’s hearing, Judge Kaplan acknowledged the keen interest in LIV’s Chapter 11 case, recounting how he had been bombarded over the weekend at his golf club about what would happen next.

— Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of bombarded

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She was interrogated and warned that a second offense meant prison.

— Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2026
Intelligence officers transported him to a camp controlled by Colombia’s FARC guerrilla organization, where he was interrogated and tortured over approximately two days, according to the charges.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026

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The settlers who carried out the attack in Jalud overnight are the same group who besieged the home of a Palestinian-American in the neighboring village of Qusra last month, local residents say.

— Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 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

Definition of besieged

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When asked about potential trust issues, Al Hassan pointed to the government’s history of completing projects and handling emergencies, like the pandemic.

— Inzamam Rashid, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
By the editing stage, the music had become so integral to the film that Haynes asked composer Marcelo Zarvos to rearrange and adapt it.

— Lise Pedersen, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026

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