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
Someone else would be paid to countersign the application.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2021
Fourteen men suspected of receiving the passports or helping to countersign documents were arrested in Kent, Essex and Merseyside.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2021
"Flash" was our code word, and countersign was "Thunder."
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
"Howdy"* was the greeting, "Yippee" and "Yowee" were countersigns all the week.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I read the order thoroughly three times, learned by heart the countersigns, impressed the map on my mind, and then destroyed the three papers in accordance with an express injunction comprised in the order itself.
From Who Goes There? by Blackwood Ketcham Benson
These cotton strips served as countersigns for those friendly to the reigning dynasty, and were worn concealed from view, but so as to admit of being at once shown in case of need.
They hung 'round the market, and they patrolled the streets, and they had signs and countersigns, and more tomfoolery than would run a circus.
From The Other Fellow by Francis Hopkinson Smith
The president will sign the warrant of appointment for the members of the government and the warrant of appointment of the attorney general, each of which will be countersigned by the taoiseach.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
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
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
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
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
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
It took several weeks and much signing and countersigning.
From Molly Brown's Orchard Home by Nell Speed
