cross-check
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State officials around the country say they work hard to maintain accurate data, year-round, using a variety of sources to cross-check their rolls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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
One way to cross-check is to look at raw or unadjusted new claims in the same week one year earlier.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 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 Bury, G. Wyman (George Wyman)
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 Moisa, Dorin Teodor
Records of purchases were cross-checked against the party's accounts.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
But when BBC Brasil cross-checked the list of the deceased published by police against the 68 names on the list of suspects provided by prosecutors, it found that none of them matched.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
We built relationships over years, not months, and cross-checked every claim across multiple actors and institutions.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2025
Those affected will be cross-checked against security services’ databases, to see whether they have previously been flagged as suspected Islamist extremists or for other radicalism, Nunez said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
The clerk told Roy to wait while he cross-checked the street location.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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
It took me a couple days’ work, and most of that was cross-checking references and waiting for people to call me back, frankly.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2025
Winger Evander Kane, who was making his season debut for the Oilers, was on the ice just 95 seconds before drawing a cross-checking penalty, giving the Kings the man advantage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025
By cross-checking these data and talking to people who had heard Arnold tell about his UFO sighting soon after it happened, I finally came up with what I believe is the accurate story.
From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.
