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cross-check

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


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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

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

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

In the study, information from large national registers was cross-checked.

From Science Daily Dec. 13, 2023

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

When there is a match, they compare the person to information they scraped from social media, using reverse image searching and cross-checking public profiles.

From Slate Jan. 28, 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

By cross-checking these data and talking to people who had heard Arnold tell about his UFO sighting soon after it happened, I finally came up with what I believe is the accurate story.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt




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