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cross-examination

noun as in inquisition

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Weak match

noun as in interrogation

noun as in third degree

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Example Sentences

If the witness did in fact witness such a terrible crime, the testimony will survive in the crucible of cross-examination.

Olson praises Boies as “better at cross-examination than any trial lawyer I have ever seen.”

While the public gasped at this specious statement, the defense took over for cross examination.

Cross-examination is to ask questions, not to make declarative statements to test the story told on direct examination.

The cardinal rule of cross-examination is that the examiner must not make statements or make speeches.

Proceeding in his cross examination, the counsel asked where the affray happened?

Both of us were sorely put to it under Doria's indignant and suspicious cross-examination.

In fact, he subjected me to a long sort of cross-examination respecting our friend Leonard here.

"I rather think not," said the Knight, who was by no means sorry to turn Mr. Dempsey from cross-examination into mere narrative.

Mr. Baker desired to make no cross-examination, and James's wife was called, and testified in her quaint way to the same effect.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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