AUDITING Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

auditing

verb

present participle of audit

as in scanning

to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition) audited the equipment to make sure that everything was in working order

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Recent Examples of auditing The Unlimited Statute Of Limitations For Fraud The SOL prescribes the length of time permitted to the IRS to enforce the tax rules, typically by auditing a tax return and assessing additional tax. — Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 Likely influenced by her father, who was a prominent mathematician at the time, Noether began auditing mathematics classes at the University of Erlangen. — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 June 2026 The other mandates a more stringent process for auditing state programs funded by new taxes. — Evelyn Ronan, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2026 Given the difficulty of auditing the citizenship of every Claude user with access to Fable 5 or Mythos 5, Anthropic immediately cut off access to both models pending a resolution of the government’s directive. — Ruben Circelli, PC Magazine, 22 June 2026 Kates recommends starting by auditing what consumers are currently paying for. — Bri Buckley, CBS News, 10 June 2026

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At the time, AFTVnews reported that two of the apps served as residential proxy providers and were considered riskware, and that the other two had APK files that were flagged by virus-scanning tools.

— Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 30 June 2026
AmbiStack takes over downstream by scanning and stacking cases for receiving.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026

Definition of scanning

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The former Republican governor didn’t state a reason for the flights on air logs, but Fitzpatrick was able to determine reasons for some trips by reviewing old media advisories and news releases.

— Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2026
Safety is given to us by intelligence analysts reviewing threats 24 hours a day, by commandos ready to deploy at a moment’s notice, and by leaders who find the courage to make the toughest calls.

— Anne Neuberger, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026

Definition of reviewing

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So traders looking to get an edge began closely examining Ronaldo’s long, storied career for evidence of crying.

— Jon Sarlin, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
This premise, though intuitive, rests on an assumption worth examining, which is that a device only competes for the mind’s resources when it is actively being used.

— Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Definition of examining

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New research from Omdia, commissioned by Apica and surveying 300 enterprise IT decision-makers, found that 59% of enterprises have already terminated or delayed an agentic AI deployment because observability costs have become unmanageable.

— Andi Mann, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
The Long Goodbye is full of glamorous hippies, with the actor Sterling Hayden (a veteran of the earlier noir era) surveying his domain on the beach in Malibu.

— Carolyn Kellogg, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

Definition of surveying

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The following day Vaccarello is carefully inspecting a room at a nondescript building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026
Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in the US have developed non-invasive methods for inspecting nuclear power plants.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 2 July 2026

Definition of inspecting

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