check up
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One soldier told the Chileans they had orders to check up on the foreign search-and-rescue teams because they could be “Yankee spies,” Lermanda said in a video interview with local journalists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
"A tiny spot of less than a centimetre" was discovered during the most recent check up.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
It added that Maradona’s health team too easily gave in to his demands, resulting in nurses failing to regularly check up on him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Minutes after AFP met with him, a flurry of officials arrived to "check up" on his welfare.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
When Hevelius wrote to Flamsteed at the end of 1678 asking to see Halley’s data, the Royal Society saw an opportunity to check up on Hevelius’s claims.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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