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cross-check

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To cross-check is defined as to verify or confirm something using alternative sources of information.

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When you double check the facts in an article that someone has given you, this is an example of cross-check.

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See cross-check in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to check or verify from various sources or points of view
Ice Hockey to illegally check (an opponent) with one's stick held in both hands and lifted from the ice

noun

an act of cross-checking

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