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n. - Someone who interviews a witness carefully (especially about testimony given earlier).

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  • “Do,” said I, very glad to dismiss the topic, and especially glad to have baffled the sagacity of my cross-questioner — if, indeed, I had baffled it; for though his...
  • He stared at the mass of files and papers before his cross-questioner.
  • Once or twice Mrs. Pallant made me rather feel a cross-questioner, which
  • They fear the intentions of the cross-questioner, and they hold themselves safest behind a crooked answer.
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