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- noun Plural form of
countercheck . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
countercheck .
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Examples
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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.
Roger MacBride Allen, Roger MacBride 1996
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This time Diekereide counterchecks the test circuitry itself.
Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985
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Just a few seconds of decisions and indecisions, checks and counterchecks.
Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971
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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!
An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition George Sharswood
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The natural result when the masculine element has not counterchecks is bullying and coarseness.
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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
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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
The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) The War Begins, Invasion of Belgium, Battle of the Marne Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902
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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.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Elbert Hubbard 1885
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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 ...
Chita: a Memory of Last Island Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Between these checks and counterchecks of European nations, the commerce of the United States was in peril of being swept entirely from the ocean.
Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Seward, William H 1849
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