cross-examiner
- a word derived from cross-examine.
Example Sentences
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A capable cross-examiner can always draw blood from an admitted liar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
Kinstler, however, is not a foghorn writer; she is a cross-examiner leaping in from multiple sides, probing, flipping, slicing, exposing shades of gray.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2022
Harris—a former prosecutor and attorney general who is often lauded as perhaps the best cross-examiner in the Senate—is just one of six Democratic members of the committee.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2020
Curry used debate scholarships to attend Southern Illinois University, where he won an award for his prowess as a cross-examiner.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2017
“What,” Harrison shot the question out like a cross-examiner, “is the present attitude of the natives toward oil and oil men?”
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh
