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Discover Ludwig"cursory check" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe an initial, quick look or inspection of something, without going into details. For example: "We did a cursory check of the property to ensure that it met our standards before signing the contract."
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She went behind the fence with a male officer, who did a cursory check.
A cursory check with the Honduran authorities would have found that the Sanei 1 was not even registered.
"However, given our limited knowledge, we would have thought that even a cursory check would have produced some interesting results".
After a cursory check, we pass through the gates and a Jeep runs us up to the house.
If I were a woman travelling alone, I might also like to think that a cursory check had been made into the driver's criminal background.
When he did his cursory check Sunday before the Jaguars' game at Tennessee, what he saw made him feel absolutely, positively ready to roll.
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Rather than truly investigating complaints, they say, the big credit bureaus make only cursory checks.
Some banks, aware that home loans would be sliced, diced, repackaged and sold on, gave up even cursory checks on their borrowers' creditworthiness.
Using the cover story that they were en route to a wedding, the they made their way past officials, undergoing only cursory checks of their belongings.
The Co-op conducted only "cursory" checks on the Britannia Building Society but the board deluded itself that a thorough job had been done.
The inquiry is examining why the officers did not appear to make even cursory checks that would have identified the suspect as a violent serial sex offender who had been in prison for rape.
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