check up
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Meta, which owns Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook among others, offers account users a "privacy check up" designed for users to check their settings.
From BBC
“Of course you’re here for the missing page! That’s what everyone comes here to find, isn’t it? No one comes to visit me, or check up on my progress, or asks me to read a couple of pages. No. It’s just me and my birds.”
From Literature
The following morning, I went to check up on her before going to school.
From Literature
“And I haven’t reached out like I should. Check up on you and Tūtū.”
From Literature
My mother’s friend Miss Philips worked for the welfare department, and one of her jobs was to check up on the Herdmans, so Mother told her about the snakebite in case Leroy should get some kind of shot for it.
From Literature
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