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Cross-examiner   /krɔs-ɪgzˈæmənər/   Listen
Cross-examiner

noun
1.
Someone who questions a witness carefully (especially about testimony given earlier).  Synonym: cross-questioner.






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"Cross-examiner" Quotes from Famous Books



... in a spirit of the deepest friendliness and sympathy with you—as a fellow-member of the same family, I may say—and with the highest ideals and the honor of that family always in view. [CURT makes no comment. SHEFFIELD unconsciously begins to adopt the alert keenness of the cross-examiner.] First, let me ask you, is it your intention to take that ...
— The First Man • Eugene O'Neill

... to tell him?" he repeated. Now suddenly he became a cross-examiner, snapping his questions at her, catching her up sharply in her replies. "And you say you never saw this Mr. Murrill—as you call him—before in all ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb



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