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cross-check

[kraws-chek, kros-, kraws-chek, -chek, kros-] / ˈkrɔsˈtʃɛk, ˈkrɒs-, ˈkrɔsˌtʃɛk, -ˈtʃɛk, ˈkrɒs- /


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Following the latest request for information, the IDF said: "Complex incidents may require considerable time to collect, cross-check, and verify the relevant factual information."

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Employee monitors like one made by a company called Insightful cross-check your online status with your calendar to see whether there is a valid reason for your apparent inactivity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

This layered approach allows researchers to cross-check results in multiple ways.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2026

Platforms like GoodRx provide a vital cross-check, listing similar coupons alongside separate pharmacy discounts that can sometimes beat federal rates.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026

We used to time our emissaries to their return and cross-check them where their wanderings intersected those of others—all were supposed to be trackers and one or two knew something about it.

From Pan-Islam by G. Wyman (George Wyman) Bury

Yi said he cross-checks census records against school enrollments, hospital births, vaccine batches and household registrations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Further investigations and cross-checks led to the arrest of a fourth, suspected of having parked the truck under the museum gallery, said Beccuau.

From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026

It takes detailed information and cross-checks this with sources it can access, such as hospital lists and names of returned detainees.

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2025

She says the interviews and cross-checks of birth certificates with other life documents are effective at catching potential inconsistencies.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 20, 2024

On symbolic model, this problem does not occur, due to multiple cross-checks between elements and relations.

From The Brain, A Decoded Enigma by Dorin Teodor Moisa

So scientists anchor the world’s coordinates to far-off stillness: quasars, the luminous cores of galaxies billions of light-years away, observed nightly by radio telescopes across multiple continents and cross-checked with lasers bounced off satellites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

We built relationships over years, not months, and cross-checked every claim across multiple actors and institutions.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2025

Traditional lidar measurements of atmospheric clouds are sometimes cross-checked and calibrated by flying an aircraft through clouds to capture droplet samples.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024

The charging major assessed on Gourde at the time came moments after he’d been cross-checked from behind by Oilers superstar Connor McDavid without a penalty being called.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2024

“They say they’re sure. They’ve checked and cross-checked birth records. She was born on the same day, in the same hospital.”

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

The review process requires careful research and cross-checking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

This would require verifying Harjit Kaur's origin and identity in Punjab through photos, cross-checking with relatives or acquaintances or finding old records, which would take at least a few weeks.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025

For investigators, what once required weeks of cross-checking siloed systems can now be done in hours or less.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2025

It took me a couple days’ work, and most of that was cross-checking references and waiting for people to call me back, frankly.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2025

It had taken Man centuries of careful comparison and cross-checking to read the evolutionary history written in the depths of his own planet's crust—to try to date the city was impossible.

From Dead Giveaway by Randall Garrett


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