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The phrase "a crossfire of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where conflicting opinions, arguments, or forces are simultaneously present, often leading to tension or conflict.
Example: "The debate turned into a crossfire of accusations, with both sides unwilling to back down."
Alternatives: "a barrage of" or "a clash of".
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It's a crossfire of suspicions.
Conflicting accounts gave rise to a crossfire of recrimination.
Soon, though, Bastrykin was caught in a crossfire of angry questions about his agency's lawless practices.
Like you, I sometimes feel as if I am caught in a crossfire of rhetoric.
Being black and being gay, and an aesthete as well, launched Ligon — and us, vicariously, as we contemplate the work — into a crossfire of allurements and compunctions.
"For me this is terrible," Ms. Muller said in a series of telephone interviews from Europe amid a crossfire of recriminations.
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Where that leaves Washington: "Next, more of the same, but with more entrenched division, a bitter crossfire of allegations and then, finally, a reckoning in the form of the 2020 presidential election," my colleague Marc Fisher writes.
The point in that regard remains elusive, but the play with male and female and masking and unmasking and the mirror as a supposed reflector of truth sets up a rich crossfire of ideas.
The nuns clearly are caught in a classic crossfire of church doctrine, politics and hierarchical obedience.
Not only was I readily available, but I was bilingual: whenever he got lost in a rapid crossfire of French he would consult me.
And even songs that start out like ballads end up, sooner or later, as a danceable crossfire of horns, keyboards and percussion.
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