countercheck
Example Sentences
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Comptroller General McCarl has not had authority to check and countercheck the expenditure of Federal emergency appropriations, nor has Budget Director Douglas had power to plan their spending.
From Time Magazine Archive
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To have his keys to count and countercheck.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Therefore, as I leave you some fading pelf to countercheck poverty, so I will bequeath you infallible precepts that shall lead you unto virtue.
From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Baldwin, Edward Chauncey
Ne'er shall she come within our palace gate, To countercheck brave Locrine in his love.
From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
We are, indeed, very fond of range, and if there is check, there should be countercheck; and in this view we are delighted to see these great Italians domesticated here.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.