double-cross
Example Sentences
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Then a double cross happens, and Rachel learns what some viewers might have suspected — that one of her colleagues is in cahoots with Keya!
From Salon • Aug. 14, 2023
Still, the Jefferson dream lives on, in the form of flags — a gold pan and two Xs, a heavy-handed symbol of the double cross — that, during the pandemic, have adorned face masks.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2021
This hyper-stylization—the heady rhythm of the fast-flying dialogue, the pre-ordained double cross, the cynicism—keeps the overwrought and overearnest in check.
From Slate • Dec. 4, 2013
“But he is a master of the double cross, both in his personal life and his professional life.”
From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2011
Not since the days of George Blake's double cross had the CIA found itself in such a hall of mirrors.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
