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- n. Plural form of countercheck.
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countercheck.
Examples
“After the endless hours of checks and counterchecks, after endless dress rehearsals, after wringing any number of bugs out of the system, all of it was done.”
“This time Diekereide counterchecks the test circuitry itself.”
“Just a few seconds of decisions and indecisions, checks and counterchecks.”
“How powerful has always been the profession in guiding the popular mind, in forming that greatest of all counterchecks to bad laws and bad administration, -- public opinion!”
“The natural result when the masculine element has not counterchecks is bullying and coarseness.”
“As for the English traders at Fort Oswego catching the tribes from the north, New France counterchecks that by sending Portneuf in April of 1749, only a year after the peace, to the Toronto portage where the Indians come from the”
“It is quite possible that had the entire strength of the German position been known, no attempt to cross would have been made, but there was always a possibility that the counterchecks of the”
“England has a wonderful system of bookkeeping and bureaucraft -- there are spies upon spies, and checks and counterchecks, so that filching a large sum from the Bank of England has been a trick never so far successfully turned.”
“From all these, perhaps, and from other monsters likewise -- goblin shapes evolved by Nature as destroyers, as equilibrists, as counterchecks to that prodigious fecundity, which, unhindered, would thicken the deep into one measureless and waveless ferment of being ...”
“Between these checks and counterchecks of European nations, the commerce of the United States was in peril of being swept entirely from the ocean.”
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