CROSS-QUESTIONS Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

cross-questions

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present tense third-person singular of cross-question

as in inquires (of)

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Petrobras pumps mostly medium-sweet crude from this pre-salt layer.

— Todd Gordon, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
The actress elevated the dress with a pair of Isabelle pumps from the late British designer’s label.

— Julia Teti, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026

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For more on this, check out STAT’s Katie Palmer’s excellent addition to her timely series Paying for AI, which examines how new clinical AI tools influence the affordability of health care and patients’ long-term health.

— O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026
Given how closely the film examines Musk’s ties to the far right, why not explore that incident further?

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

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Someone bombards you with a stack of un-asked for pages at a coffee date?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
Kyiv urgently needs more interceptors before winter, when Russia routinely bombards its power grid, but the demands of the Iran war and slow output of the sophisticated interceptors have left Ukraine short and vulnerable.

— Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026

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