How to Use double-cross in a Sentence
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Things go awry when he’s double-crossed.
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Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
8 Apr. 2026
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Wahlberg plays Parker, a blue-collar thief seeking revenge after a brutal double-cross.
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Okla Jones,
Essence,
9 Oct. 2025
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He had been double-crossed by Guzmán López, who was also on the plane and had been arranging his surrender for some time.
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Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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In Play Dirty, Wahlberg stars a career criminal named Parker, who’s double-crossed by a member of his team after a robbery.
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Eric Andersson,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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To make Jonah's deadly double-cross even more infuriating to D'Arcy, there's a real-life connection.
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Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
18 Sep. 2025
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Now and then, the series jumps ahead about 60 years, where Blethyn’s Emma, now an incredibly wealthy and powerful department-store mogul, is dealing with double-crossing relatives and an excess of shag carpeting.
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Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
25 June 2026
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Plot details are very hazy, but the word on the street is that the story centers on a ne’er-do-well smuggler who finds himself in the middle of a deadly double-cross while on a job in the Caribbean Sea, resulting in him surrounded by bodies, hostile mercenaries and thirsty sharks alike.
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Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Oct. 2025
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The double-cross at Piccadilly Circus is inevitable, but the episode plays the sequence elegantly, intercutting Tara’s effort to give her minders the slip with the Park’s feckless attempt to manage a breach in the MI5 database.
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Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
22 Oct. 2025
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The Iranians didn’t, however, get to escape with the bearings that would help kick off their nuclear program because the show’s protagonist, Ben Edwards (played by Taylor Kitsch), and the surviving espionage members of Haverford’s team found out that their leader had double-crossed them.
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Demetrius Patterson,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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Wasting no time, Liridon double-crosses them in dramatic fashion, sending Shaban and Hatixhe, along with Nana and their young daughters (Aria Shala, Riga Morina, Melika Gashi), to Pristina, where Hatixhe’s married sister lives.
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Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Jan. 2026
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This would have been a good moment for a timely double cross,.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes,
2 May 2022
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Which leaves Vic to double cross his sister by turning her in to police.
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Breanna Bell,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2023
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Most politicians at least wait a decent interval to pull a double cross.
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Andrew Stuttaford,
National Review,
27 June 2021
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Most politicians at least wait a decent interval to pull a double cross.
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The Editorial Board,
WSJ,
24 June 2021
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Danica then double crosses Quell and the Kovacses and tries to kill them.
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Ariana Romero,
refinery29.com,
28 Feb. 2020
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Monica and Leo run afoul of Kase, the not very masterful mastermind of the double cross.
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BostonGlobe.com,
3 Oct. 2019
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The answer, right now, seems to be split down the middle (though there’s always the chance of another double cross in either direction).
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Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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Filled with crosses and double crosses, the plot is mostly irrelevant, but the outlandish flourishes make for a good deal of foul-mouthed fun.
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Brian Lowry,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2020
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Pam Grier’s title character is a smart master of the double cross and steers this vastly entertaining crime movie.
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New York Times,
9 Mar. 2021
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There were twists and double crosses and daring rescues, ending with Judge Gen concluding that, yes, the afterlife's point system is flawed.
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Ars Technica,
3 Feb. 2020
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The secessionists’ green and yellow flag includes a pair of Xs known as the double cross, which represent their sense of abandonment from both state governments.
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Hailey Branson-Potts,
latimes.com,
24 Sep. 2017
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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.
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Tribune News Service,
oregonlive,
23 Sep. 2021
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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.
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Los Angeles Times,
21 Sep. 2021
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Lacy wore a double cross tuxedo pinned with a rhinestone and pearl shield brooch, knife-sharp boots, and oversized bug-like sunglasses while holding the brand's glossy Manhattan clutch against his chest like a priest holds a bible.
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Tara Gonzalez,
Harper's BAZAAR,
6 Feb. 2023
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The cartel was from the deadly Los Zetas, according to Mexican officials, and double crossed them for a ransom.
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Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
12 Aug. 2019
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There are twists and double crosses and daring rescues, ending with Judge Gen concluding in the midseason finale that, yes, the afterlife's point system is flawed.
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Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
28 Dec. 2019
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The movie follows these two rats through the plot maze of double crosses, murders, investigations, and betrayals as the mob and the authorities struggle for control of Boston.
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Lincoln Michel,
GQ,
2 June 2018
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The proposition sets up one of the major tensions of the final season with Michael vowing from the beginning to double cross Tommy and kill him—avenging Polly’s death.
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Josh St. Clair,
Men's Health,
11 June 2022
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Fleiss’s ascendance was built on a double cross, and within a few years of her rise, an old foe would orchestrate a series of events that turned her into the target of a sting operation and the subject of a national media circus.
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Vulture,
14 Apr. 2022
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Genesis continues to be the pinnacle of luxury SUV design featuring a double cross-hatch grille, wrap-around LED lights, and inside, jewel-like center console controls.
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Scotty Reiss,
Parents,
24 Feb. 2026
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