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cross-check

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


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The voter lists will be “based entirely” on data from the states, and the post office “will not change the content” or even cross-check it against other sources.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

The scheme, coordinated by the Cabinet Office's fraud team, external, allows councils to cross-check social housing records against Airbnb listings in an effort to tackle what the government calls "social housing fraud."

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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

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

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

The BBC cross-checked local newspaper reports and spoke to district reporters to trace where bodies were received, mapped these locations, and then visited the victims' families.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025

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

The clerk told Roy to wait while he cross-checked the street location.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

It will also be worth cross-checking what we hear from the prime minister on Monday afternoon with what has already been published about the appointment of Lord Mandelson.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

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

The problem criss-crossed in and out, around, about, checking, cross-checking, re-checking as The Computer 'thought' about the problem.

From Two Plus Two Makes Crazy by Walter J. Sheldon


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