spot check

Example Sentences

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When the special master overseeing a city court-ordered agreement to provide thousands of homeless shelter beds made a spot check at a South Los Angeles shelter she was disappointed in what she found.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

Later in 2021, an unconnected spot check revealed an item was missing and the museum began to uncover how many items had been taken or damaged.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2023

But a spot check of candy displays in multiple states __ including California, Virginia and Washington __ found no such signs.

From Washington Times • Oct. 16, 2023

But without some reliance on automated methods, “You either have to spot check randomly, or you use your own human prejudice to choose what to check. And that’s not generally very fair.”

From Science Magazine • May 9, 2023

A spot check of newspapers in Philadelphia and New York reveals a pattern quite similar.

From Old English Patent Medicines in America by Griffenhagen, George B.