Definitions
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- verb check out conflicting sources; crosscheck facts, for example
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Examples
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Fortunately, we can cross-check our estimates of congregational diversity with the National Congregations Study NCS, a nationally representative study of congregations.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Fair warning: The site is by no means complete or foolproof, so you should always cross-check by going to the source.
TOSBack Monitors Terms Of Service Changes To Google And 45 Others | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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They also were able to quickly gather a passenger list and cross-check it with a list of people treated by emergency workers, he said.
New York Prepares for the Fire Next Time Chad Bray 2011
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"We cross-check records with Ty and his people all the time," said Chief Petty Officer Todd Willebrand, a spokesman for the Naval Special
Post Gazette - Fake SEALs are barking up the wrong tree 2010
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Added Unique Visitors (cookies), a new cookie-based metric, to help you cross-check and compare metrics, similar to Google Analytics unique visitor metrics.
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"I know what you did," Robbie Carr, one of the four, told a player after a discreetly vicious cross-check, "because I've done it before myself."
Hockey in Manhattan, No Ice Needed Joshua Robinson 2011
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The police would be able to cross-check that sort of fact easily, she thought, and figure out if it was significant or not.
A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011
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Officers formally requested any and all computer material that Goodman had been involved with during his occasional shifts as a freelance reporter at the paper over the last year to cross-check it with his activities in his NoW role.
Police question Coulson and Goodman as phone-hacking investigations widen 2011
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The police would be able to cross-check that sort of fact easily, she thought, and figure out if it was significant or not.
A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011
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Hours after a new Molson Coors sponsorship was announced Tuesday, Labatt Breweries, the official beer sponsor of the National Hockey League in Canada for more than a decade, essentially called the decision a cross-check.
Molson Coors Scores NHL Sponsorship Over Labatt David Kesmodel 2011
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