cross-check
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There is no language they can’t learn and no reference too obscure for them to cross-check against the entirety of their training data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
One way to cross-check is to look at raw or unadjusted new claims in the same week one year earlier.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
This layered approach allows researchers to cross-check results in multiple ways.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2026
Researchers found that homeless liaisons often have to cross-check a patchwork of systems to confirm a student’s eligibility and status.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 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
AI-powered software then combines and cross-checks data to provide an accurate location.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 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
Mr Marks said the additional cross-checks against UK tax and payroll data were dropped after the pilot was extended, in order to "streamline the process".
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 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
They cross-checked the faces and names of the men carefully logged by Dominique alongside facial recognition technology.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024
Those affected will be cross-checked against security services’ databases, to see whether they have previously been flagged as suspected Islamist extremists or for other radicalism, Nunez said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
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
“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
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
“Each month, our legislative team reviews hundreds of Council and Committee votes, cross-checking for potential conflicts,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 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
