cross-question

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Lord Pannick argued that the investigation process was "manifestly unfair" and that Lord Lester should have had the opportunity to cross-question his accuser.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2018

He, and other medical reporters, also benefited from advance briefings in lay language by key scheduled speakers, and had a chance to cross-question them.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Congressmen do not often get a chance to cross-question the Secretary of the Treasury and when they do they make the most of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Opposing attorneys tried for two days to cross-question her into inconsistencies, had no luck at all.

From Time Magazine Archive

The harbour-master hurries to Ramsgate pier-head; he and all with him can see nothing; they cross-question the man who asserts that he observed during a lift in the fog a vessel on the sands.

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