cross-check
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Also ask for bank and credit-card statements to cross-check reported revenue against actual deposits.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
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
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
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
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
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Skinner said his organization also imposes internal restrictions: vetting the volunteers, cross-checking submissions, avoiding posting the home addresses of identified agents, removing nurses from the database, and excluding social media platforms that feature kids.
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
The Jackal's forgery of a British passport, using the name of a dead child taken from a churchyard, was perfectly feasible in the days before electronic databases and cross-checking.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 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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