cross-check
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Also ask for bank and credit-card statements to cross-check reported revenue against actual deposits.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
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
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 G. Wyman (George Wyman) Bury
Yi said he cross-checks census records against school enrollments, hospital births, vaccine batches and household registrations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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
Many of these accounts were provided to the BBC by sources close to the victims and were cross-checked against data from human rights organisations.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
We built relationships over years, not months, and cross-checked every claim across multiple actors and institutions.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2025
The charging major assessed on Gourde at the time came moments after he’d been cross-checked from behind by Oilers superstar Connor McDavid without a penalty being called.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 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
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It will also be worth cross-checking what we hear from the prime minister on Monday afternoon with what has already been published about the appointment of Lord Mandelson.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
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
Each alias card also should have typed on it the correct name of the individual, for purposes of reference and cross-checking.
From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by J. Edgar (John Edgar) Hoover
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