cross-examination

noun

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as in grilling

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Recent Examples of cross-examination Nelson reported on the cross-examination of the prison psychologist. — Jenny Porter Tilley, IndyStar, 21 Sep. 2026 Consumer devices were designed to clean floors, not withstand cross-examination; timestamps, firmware changes and retention policies can complicate interpretation. — Jihun Joun, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2026 In a cross-examination of Simring, Christopher Schellhorn, from the Morris County prosecutor’s office, highlighted some of these errors. — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026 During his cross-examination, the pain became obvious in McDonald’s grimace. — Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cross-examination
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cross-examination
  1. grilling
  2. challenge
  3. survey
  4. questionnaire
  5. rehearing
  6. reinvestigation
  7. interrogation
  8. quiz
Noun
  • This is why the American Heart Association recommends avoiding open flames and high temperatures while grilling.
    — Laura Bradley, HEALTH, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Vibrant and detailed illustrations map out the way, from a section about grilling equipment to an overview of Korean herbs.
    — Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of grilling
Noun
  • Making peace between the GOP’s pro-Israel establishment and its restive right wing will pose an early challenge for Vice President JD Vance, who’s positioning himself for a posible 2028 run.
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The approach resolves the challenge of uniformly printing transport layers and perovskite films onto flexible substrates.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of challenge
Noun
  • Staying invested The survey, conducted between late August and early September, included 2,029 American investors with at least $10,000 in investable assets and 538 financial advisers and financial professionals.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Abdul el Sayed wasn’t the only progressive Democrat helped by a survey from Wedgewood, the fraudulent pollster that is roiling Michigan’s Senate race.
    — David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of survey
Noun
  • The company’s findings are in a new worker safety report; much of the retail-specific data in this article comes from the full questionnaire and detailed results tables the company shared with Retail Brew.
    — Andrew Adam Newman, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Symptoms, sleep habits, and how well antidepressants worked were all self-reported, and the circadian markers came from questionnaires rather than direct measures of the body clock.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of questionnaire
Noun
  • The company could still petition for a rehearing, and could also ask the Supreme Court to take the case.
    — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2026
  • If the 9th Circuit sides with the NFL, the plaintiffs in the class action can petition the appeals court for a rehearing en banc.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of rehearing
Noun
  • The president called for the reinvestigation of all Afghan refugees who entered under the Biden administration.
    — Boston Herald Wire Services, Boston Herald, 27 Nov. 2025
  • At first, the news of the Bondi Beach reinvestigation seemed to give Steve and Noone common cause.
    — Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Definition of reinvestigation
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  • Asylum claims, prison, a police interrogation room or a hospital waiting room, for example.
    — Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026
  • But while longtime members of SVU’s fandom might be swept away by the possibility of sitting at Benson’s desk or strutting around the station’s interrogation rooms, Giddish’s sons think the whole thing is pretty ho-hum.
    — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of interrogation
Noun
  • Take the quiz here ⦠LISTEN Tune in as Florida's race for governor heats up, with rising living costs, property taxes, insurance rates, and campaign debates taking center stage.
    — , FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
  • During the trial, the state accused Facebook of deceiving its users about a data breach stemming from a third-party personality quiz that obtained data from about 87 million Facebook profiles.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of quiz

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