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
But while this game of check and countercheck was being played, the North was becoming more and more impatient and events were rapidly bringing another player to the fore.
From On the Trail of Grant and Lee by Hill, Frederick Trevor
The countercheck was effectual, and from her position of vantage the lady fired her first shot.
From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend
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.
