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audit

[aw-dit] / ˈɔ dɪt /




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In 2023, a federal audit flagged serious pesticide incidents in half a dozen counties and uncovered patchwork oversight by agricultural commissioners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

IT systems keep an audit trail that should be able to show exactly who accessed a patient's records and when.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Over the past few weeks she’s received questions about whether auditors can speak freely without retaliation from the labs and if evaluators can gain sufficient access to the necessary materials needed to conduct an audit.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

After the July Hugging Face attack and the researchers’ hack, OpenAI did a serious security audit of its systems, the company’s president and co-founder, Greg Brockman, said this week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

He concluded that there was effectively no way for an accountant assigned to audit a giant Wall Street firm to figure out whether it was making money or losing money.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

UN safety audits have shown particular risks to women and girls at night, causing them to avoid camp toilets and bathrooms.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Enforcing these guidelines would probably require IRS audits to determine whether a school’s policies or programs are in compliance.

From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2026

Commission officials said they would wait for the results of a pair of audits by the inspector general’s office before making any further policy changes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

A self-described “workaholic,” Cook famously wakes up at 4 a.m. to read customer and employee emails, then hits the gym and badges into Apple Park when he’s not traveling for diplomatic meetings or supply-chain audits.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

The Fowls had held on to Fowl Manor over the years, surviving war, civil unrest, and several tax audits.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Abbott has tried to ameliorate these concerns by requiring all new data centers to be audited by the state, a step that policy experts and Democrats have criticized as insufficient.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

A mystery Polymarket user earned about $22,000 with a series of near-perfect bets on the quarterly earnings of companies that had one thing in common: they were all audited by KPMG.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Lisburn Square No 2, the apartment owners' landlord, said it was the "largest individual contributor to the service charge" and that all expenditure was audited.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

The burgeoning young composer organized Bernstein’s music archives, sat in on recording sessions and audited his senior-level classes for three years while studying at the Thornton School of Music at USC.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Wait until Mom and Dad got home and I had to break it to them that my finances were being audited.

From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen

The company has identified nearly 400 “musecases” ranging from auditing unnecessary subscriptions to negotiating parking tickets.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

Osman, who is from Leicester in the UK, has lived in Malawi for several years and works for an auditing firm.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

“States now have a negotiated menu of age assurance, time limits, nighttime restrictions, parental controls, auditing, and monetary relief that they can put on the table,” Engstrom told me.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

In emails, Marc Treitler, Conservice’s general counsel and president of sustainability, said the company helps all parties save on utilities by auditing the bills it receives directly from providers before passing charges on to renters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Unnerved, Oppenheimer confided that every other registered student had already done the same—the hall was filled with students auditing the course for no credit, struggling to understand the subject matter without risking a grade.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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