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Packard-Grams and Jesse Obert of the Archaeological Research Facility scanned the newly written scrolls to verify the amount of lead present.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Many tools publish percentage figures about their accuracy, but the figures are impossible to verify and do not take into account the risk of a false positive.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
Ukrainian Ministry of Defense rules require keeping humans in the loop for “combat” decisions, meaning that humans verify targets in the “final stages of interception.”
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
While the BBC cannot independently verify these figures, one local resident has given her personal account of losing her loved ones.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
The first thing he wanted to verify was Edith’s marital status.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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It verifies the signer’s identity and legal authority to complete the transaction, and — this is the key part — makes the issuing financial institution financially liable if the signature proves to be fraudulent.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
The WHO verifies and records attacks on healthcare but does not attribute blame as it is not an investigation agency.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
It verifies Gloria’s singing talent and proves a perfect match for her showy, cagey persona: the love child of Marlene Dietrich and Sally Bowles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
And Oracle independently inspects and verifies every piece of the application’s source code and each software update.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
What is here and now, not future "workings," not past expectations, but the present--this is what he more immediately gets and verifies.
From The Sources Of Religious Insight by Josiah Royce
As of late August, there were an estimated 13,000 Flock cameras across Texas, according to DeFlock, an anti-surveillance watchdog that uses verified crowdsourcing to map the locations of Flock cameras.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
They gathered nearly 32,000 verified signatures to get "Initiative 86" on the ballot, which is more signatures than for a proposal to legalize cannabis approved in 2014.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
The Journal verified the company was established weeks before the letter’s date.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
That detail has been verified by the BBC based on numerous pictures obtained from residents.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Did the City Clerk, who verified Mr. Evans's testimony, get a break in sentencing?
From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers
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The platform pointed to advice on its website, external about how to spot recruitment scams by, for example, verifying that the company and job was real and doing thorough research before engaging in talks.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Once the quantum calculation becomes too difficult for a classical computer to reproduce, verifying that the quantum machine actually produced the correct result becomes increasingly difficult as well.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Kalshi said it is looking to broaden its fast-growing weather-predictions markets with meteorological know-how from the Weather Co., which is now verifying outcomes on climate trades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
On the one hand, the types of technologies that have exploded since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 can automate tasks like editing grammar or verifying facts and figures.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
He gave Winston a single sharp glance, as though verifying his identity, and then paid no more attention to him.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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