cross-questioning
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The cross-questioning of Guillam by the modern spy service’s supremely ghastly lawyers is hilarious and horrifying.
From Economist • Sep. 7, 2017
Mr. Auerbach directed the group like a conductor rehearsing an orchestra, bidding members to speak and others when to interrupt the speaker playing the “toughie” in a cross-questioning drill.
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2011
In cross-questioning, Marshall led J. Jefferson Bennett, assistant to President Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, to admit that the protective efforts of the university could hardly be called vigorous.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though there thus was no chance of vituperative cross-questioning, the unemployment investigation promised to remain on the front page.
From Time Magazine Archive
She appeared to be cross-questioning me, attempting to draw from me information unawares.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
