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• Samuels has been in the crosshairs since early this year.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• The nation's fourth-biggest city is in the crosshairs of Beryl.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
• The Midwest and the Great Lakes are in the crosshairs Friday morning.
  — Max Golembo, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2024
• The last few weeks have put Bloom’s judgment squarely in the crosshairs.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
• The premiere date was in the crosshairs of the looming Screen Actors Guild strike.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 9 July 2023
• Hitler’s next move was clear to anyone who could read a map: Poland was now in the crosshairs.
  — TIME, 16 Apr. 2024
• Read why she’s now caught in the crosshairs of cancel culture.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 20 June 2024
• Are any members of new coach Brandon Moore’s staff in the crosshairs?
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
• And, yes, there was some smack talk, with Andreessen Horowitz mostly in the crosshairs.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2024
• And so gay Republicans were caught in the crosshairs of that.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 30 July 2024
• Fintech isn’t the only sector in the crosshairs right now.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
• The group had ended up in the crosshairs of a shootout between rival cartel gangs.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2023
• Nobody has been caught in the crosshairs of Russell’s antics as much as Jake Davis.
  — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 29 Feb. 2024
• But there was no time to treat them while the convoy remained in the crosshairs of Russian artillery.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 26 June 2022
• As the war in Yemen stretches into its ninth year, children remain caught in the crosshairs.
  — Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Now, capital flows between the world’s two biggest economies are in the crosshairs.
  — Jenny Leonard, Bloomberg.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• Second, the post-election period is now in the crosshairs.
  — Miles Taylor, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
• The trial in Dallas/Fort Worth puts Manna right in the crosshairs of one of its competitors.
  — Jonathan Keane, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• What else could one do in a ravaged land where fresh graves multiplied and civilians were in the crosshairs?
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
• Huawei had long been in the crosshairs of Washington as the sharpest tip of China’s tech industry.
  — Eva Dou, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
• Parrots aren’t the only pricey companions in the crosshairs of pet thieves in recent years.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
• The evolution of malware is a relentless game of cat and mouse, and Android users are once again in the crosshairs.
  — Lars Daniel, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
• The forecast track has shifted slightly south as of Sunday, but Tampa is still in the crosshairs.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 7 Oct. 2024
• The size of Hung’s trades dwarfs those that got his subordinate, who has denied any wrongdoing, in the crosshairs of the SEC.
  — Ellis Simani, ProPublica, 22 June 2023
• Taiwan, a close U.S. partner, is most directly in the crosshairs.
  — Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• But an endurance athlete ending up in the crosshairs due to edits on Wikipedia—that truly is a first.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2024
• Prosecutors set out to prove that Herbert was aware that his estranged wife was in the crosshairs.
  — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024
• In the past few years, the Jubilee Center has found itself in the crosshairs of the city’s code officers, racking up thousands in fines.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
• The loan-repayment cap was only the latest provision in the crosshairs.
  — Dallas News, 16 May 2022
• What threats lie ahead for those countries that see themselves in the crosshairs of competition?
  — Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024