countercheck
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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
To have his keys to count and countercheck.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
The countercheck was effectual, and from her position of vantage the lady fired her first shot.
From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan
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 Margaret Fuller
That word fell on his ear for the first time from a white man's lips, and the stupefaction of it was a countercheck to his grief.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various
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