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
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 De Morgan, William Frend
He is forbidden, in fact, to be himself a good citizen; forbidden to be anything more than the colourless instrument of a system of compromise and countercheck.
From Irish Books and Irish People by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
