cross-check
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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
This layered approach allows researchers to cross-check results in multiple ways.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2026
Platforms like GoodRx provide a vital cross-check, listing similar coupons alongside separate pharmacy discounts that can sometimes beat federal rates.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026
Last year Michigan Secretary of StateJocelyn Benson’s office said it had done a cross-check of the state’s voter rolls against driving records.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 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 G. Wyman (George Wyman) Bury
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
Mr Marks said the additional cross-checks against UK tax and payroll data were dropped after the pilot was extended, in order to "streamline the process".
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 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 Dorin Teodor Moisa
So scientists anchor the world’s coordinates to far-off stillness: quasars, the luminous cores of galaxies billions of light-years away, observed nightly by radio telescopes across multiple continents and cross-checked with lasers bounced off satellites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Earlier reports had initially confirmed two deaths and 14 rescued, but the minister said the latest figures of 20 rescued had been cross-checked with various sources, including the ambulance services.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026
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
“They say they’re sure. They’ve checked and cross-checked birth records. She was born on the same day, in the same hospital.”
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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
The Jackal's forgery of a British passport, using the name of a dead child taken from a churchyard, was perfectly feasible in the days before electronic databases and cross-checking.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2025
The problem of criticism becomes particularly difficult during the fur period from about 1810 to 1840 owing to the paucity of sources available for cross-checking particular data.
From Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society by Robert F. Murphy
