countersign
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It was to Mr. Badinter that Mr. Mitterrand turned in 1984 to countersign, in strict secrecy, the document in which the president recognized Mazarine Pingeot, his daughter from an adulterous relationship.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
A pub licensee was also found to countersign the application.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2023
Someone else would be paid to countersign the application.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2021
Education cannot live under any hermetic seal, but only under the countersign of man's nature and destiny.
From Time Magazine Archive
‘Me Know You,’Johnny repeated this countersign and took his place behind Mr. Revere.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
With as many shibboleths and countersigns as a dime novel, the Beggars have methods as effective as they are penny-dreadful.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Howdy"* was the greeting, "Yippee" and "Yowee" were countersigns all the week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Barney had been well vouched for and had all the pass-words and countersigns of the great fraternity, but Walker mistrusted him.
From Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Meredith Nicholson
It was his duty to record the paroles and countersigns, the various orders for the next day, and to see that they were attended to.
From Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 by M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
I was compelled to give countersigns to your soldiers—quite emphatic countersigns.
From All-Wool Morrison by Holman Day
Judit Varga, who was minister of justice at the time of the pardon, countersigned the clemency decision.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2024
Frank Miller’s "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts an aged, bloated, broken Bruce Wayne, lonely and perennially tormented not only by the murder he witnessed as a child but by the countless others he’s countersigned since.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2018
However, Mr Wheat did strongly recommend that any pardon not personally autographed by the president be countersigned by the attorney general.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2017
Despite the institute's evident professionalism, its anonymity and mysteriousness made reviewers skittish—even after they had received countersigned contracts.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2012
There were the checks that I’d countersigned, the ones that had bounced, and the ones that hadn’t.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
The final defendant, Kevin Crinnion, 73, is alleged to have helped with passport applications, including countersigning documents.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2023
This extraordinary statement, though entirely undercut in British fashion by its qualifying clause, seemed to mark the first admission by His Majesty's Government that in countersigning Adolf Hitler they may have historically blundered.
From Time Magazine Archive
Walter, who went to the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance, started out with his father in the bookkeeper's office, countersigning checks so that he could see where the money went.
From Time Magazine Archive
How you annoy me with this eternal signing and countersigning!
From The Daughter of an Empress by Nathaniel Greene
There was a special entrance for soldiers and a special exit for soldiers, and at both of these a long file of blue-clad poilus waited for the countersigning of their furlough slips and military tickets.
From A Volunteer Poilu by Henry Beston
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