CROSS-QUESTIONED Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

cross-questioned

verb

past tense of cross-question

as in examined

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In the fourth quarter, left tackle Rashawn Slater lay for several moments on the turf and was examined by medical staff before rising to his feet and walking gingerly to the sideline with an ankle injury.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
Under D’Amaro, Disney has enacted new rounds of layoffs and examined its cost structure.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of examined

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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
Along with the rockets and spacecraft that transport them into orbit, satellites are constantly bombarded with fast moving particles that travel through space called cosmic rays.

— Andrea Richard, The Conversation, 2 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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In both examples, no one is being proposed to, asked on a date, or really being asked any kind of question that would require them to respond in an immediate, public way.

— Vanessa Bohns, Time, 6 Oct. 2026
View gallery - 5 images Agilink, a spin-off of Chinese robotics giant AgiBot, asked Fu Xianghong, a master of traditional Suzhou embroidery, to train its OmniHand 3 Ultra.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2026

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