as in inspection
a close look at or over someone or something in order to judge condition
the vet gave the kitten a checkup, then reassuringly declared her in fine health
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Recent Examples of checkup
Quick tip: Set a reminder to run a privacy checkup every few months, especially after major Facebook updates.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2025
The girl has only been able to get one medical checkup and MRI in Monterrey.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 12 June 2025
Patients – especially the uninsured and underinsured – are left to make impossible choices: delay treatment or take on debt, ration medication or skip checkups, trust the health care system or go without.
—Zachary W. Schulz, The Conversation, 6 June 2025
Residents can bring their plants for a free checkup .
—Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 June 2025
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2025
The girl has only been able to get one medical checkup and MRI in Monterrey.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 12 June 2025
Patients – especially the uninsured and underinsured – are left to make impossible choices: delay treatment or take on debt, ration medication or skip checkups, trust the health care system or go without.
—Zachary W. Schulz, The Conversation, 6 June 2025
Residents can bring their plants for a free checkup .
—Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for checkup
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Two key reforms that DeSantis signed into law in 2022 are central to the dynamic: mandatory building inspections requiring immediate repairs, and mandatory reserve studies requiring associations to save for future maintenance.—
Alexandra Glorioso,
Miami Herald,
23 June 2025
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This component classifies requests and forwards to the WAF just the ones needing inspection, such as dynamic content requests, and offloads the WAF by caching responses.—
Alexander Krizhanovsky,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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Italian law dictates that citizens over 80 must renew their license every two years and complete a medical examination that tests mental acuity.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
19 June 2025
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That hasn’t, however, extended to a deep examination of last season’s Super Bowl LIX loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.—
Jesse Newell,
Kansas City Star,
19 June 2025
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The audit also found that DCF hadn’t followed the law in some cases and had failed to implement internal controls to make sure children stayed safe.—
Ginny Monk,
Hartford Courant,
27 June 2025
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Kennedy bases that number on a 2009 federal audit of conflict-of-interest paperwork, but that report looked at 17 CDC advisory committees, not specifically this vaccine committee.—
Jake Scott,
The Conversation,
26 June 2025
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Conducted between Wednesday and Friday, the survey marks the first major independent poll finding Mamdani overtaking Cuomo, who has otherwise consistently ranked as the favorite to win the race.—
Chris Sommerfeldt,
New York Daily News,
23 June 2025
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The benchmarks that customers consider in the survey include accuracy, mobile app quality, helpfulness of staff, food quality, speed, menu variety, cleanliness, and more.—
Abigail Wilt,
Southern Living,
23 June 2025
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Michael Proctor says crude texts 'don't define me as a person' Proctor's personal text messages, many of which expressed crude comments about Read, came under scrutiny during the first trial.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
21 June 2025
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Trump has since promised to extend those tax cuts — the majority of which are due to expire at the end of 2025 — through a bill that passed the House in late May and is under close scrutiny in the Senate.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
20 June 2025
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“Checkup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/checkup. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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