double-cross
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I was sure she’d win last year when the third season of “Hacks” ended with her character, Ava, pulling off a delightful double-cross.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025
No-one knows whether they will double-cross their paymasters by secretly voting for another candidate on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2022
Even after Makee’s double-cross at the end of episode eight, it was still clear she and John cared for one another and that she would be willing to abandon the Covenant again for his sake.
From The Verge ● May 20, 2022
But when Bond goes to pay respects to the late Vesper Lynd, he gets wind of a double-cross and a chase sequence follows.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2021
“That,” she said quietly, “is despicable. Ask for his help, then double-cross him? And you wonder why goblins don’t like wizards, Ron?”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
There’s not much subtext, everything remains on the surface, and the exceptionally wordy script relies on exposition dumps to inform the audience about rumors, twists, deals and double-crosses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
Metz may envision Steinhauer's story to be a twisty thriller with double-crosses, but the film is edited in ways that defuse the tension and possibly confuse the viewer.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2022
And as should be the case with any good heist thriller, No Sudden Move gets both darker and funnier as the betrayals and double-crosses pile up.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2021
He was like the character in a spy movie “who double-crosses everyone to save his own skin,” Obama writes.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2020
She figured Sciron would have no trouble believing in double-crosses, being a bandit and all.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
“It was nice for me to make that putt after I double-crossed that drive off the tee,” Lipsky said, “That was wasn’t fun, I’ll be honest.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
Bonnet returned to find that Blackbeard had double-crossed him and dumped most of Bonnet's crew, stripped the Revenge of supplies and sailed off with the loot.
From Salon ● May 21, 2022
“At this point, we’re feeling a little bit abandoned and a little bit double-crossed by the community we are trying to serve,” Rupp said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2022
After Slone double-crossed you and left you to perish on the Mothership, the cubes that powered it are now free.
From The Verge ● Sep. 13, 2021
Dasch didn't want the other saboteurs to know that he was the one who'd double-crossed them.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
She also played a double-crossing hotel detective inspector as well as a member of a wedding party singing purposefully off key lyrics, inspired by “Espresso,” to expose bad behavior at the bachelorette party.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024
People loathed her double-crossing, despised her blind self-serving moves and they really, really hated her hair.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2024
Within a decade, he was double-crossing the bureau.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2023
If Dado’s “Simpatico” doesn’t provide an equivalent catharsis, it’s only because Shepard’s elaborately mapped tale of double-crossing and horse-racing will never hang together as a consistent story.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2017
Entire plots were hatched around swiping food, complete with double-crossing, backstabbing, intrigue, outright robbery, and gobbled evidence.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
