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"ref": "2015, Susaik Chu, My Search",
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"(most often in phrasal verb \"check up on\") To verify through brief investigation or revisit for assurance that there are no problems."
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"ref": "2014, Jean Trumpington, Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir",
"text": "So instead she checked up on them and discovered that they were very respectable, which made her much happier.",
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},
{
"ref": "2015, Susaik Chu, My Search",
"text": "Every three months, I checked up with Dr. Ma and took a blood sample test to check on my diabetic HGBA1c, glucose fasting data range, and my lipid data for my blood test results.",
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"text": "He's checking up the figures."
},
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"To verify something's accuracy."
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"sense": "to verify through examination",
"word": "ստուգել"
},
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "to verify through examination",
"word": "zkontrolovat"
},
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"sense": "to verify through examination",
"word": "tarkistaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to verify through examination",
"word": "tarkastaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to verify through examination",
"word": "katsastaa"
},
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to verify through examination",
"word": "überprüfen"
},
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to verify through examination",
"word": "nachsehen"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to verify through examination",
"word": "nachschauen"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to verify through examination",
"word": "ellenőriz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to verify through examination",
"word": "megvizsgál"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to verify through examination",
"word": "utánanéz"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to verify through examination",
"word": "verifica"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to verify through examination",
"word": "controla"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to verify through examination",
"word": "revisar"
}
],
"word": "check up"
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