cross-questioning

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Judge Subramanian said Mr Combs was "vigorously nodding" during the cross questioning of Bryana Bongolan, a friend of Mr Combs' ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura who accused the rapper of holding her over a balcony.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2025

Witness after witness was called by the state, and questioned at length; but the cross questioning was brief.

From The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Twain, Mark

This method of procedure, with cross questioning, may and should indeed be sufficient to unravel the case for us in most cases.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

By dint of cross questioning, we made shift to ascertain, that about two o'clock, or four bells, Old Cuff had rolled away from under my head, and over the top brim.

From An Old Sailor's Yarns by Ames, N. (Nathaniel)

And so, after much cross questioning, the distinctions of the Gersdorf family seemed to be chiefly reduced to their having been Gersdorfs, and having lived at Gersdorf for a great many hundred years.

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle