How to Use audit in a Sentence

audit

1 of 2 noun
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  • You will need all your records if you are selected for audit by the IRS.
  • The Internal Revenue Service selected us for an audit.
  • This is the second audit of its kind the school has faced over the last year from the state-level agency.
    — The Arizona Republic, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Some troopers have been cleared of wrongdoing in the weeks since the audit was released.
    — Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2023
  • But the audit is only a snapshot in time, Safer Espinoza said.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The audit, released a year ago, found the Sheriff’s Department failed to prevent and respond to the deaths.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2023
  • But none of the commanders interviewed for the audit knew this resource was available to them.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The audit verifies whether those people are still alive.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, New York Times, 7 July 2023
  • The audit focused on techs whose work was flagged; the company won’t say how many workers were involved.
    — Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Only one of the system's death audit services reported the death to the system, but not until 2017.
    — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 4 June 2023
  • Outside of court, Iredale told the Union-Tribune that the timing of the audit in November 2018 was suspicious.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2023
  • In its ruling, the court said the audit report was so general an investor wouldn’t have relied on it.
    — Jonathan Weil, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Collins said the lack of an audit predated his tenure as mayor, which began in 2019.
    — Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The canvass period is a 30-day time used to count all ballots and conduct a post-election audit.
    — Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The department did not answer a question Monday about what DPD’s next steps are now that the homicide audit is done.
    — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Last month, Microsoft disclosed that the IRS had sent the company a bill for $28.9 billion in back taxes as part of an audit.
    — Paul Kiel, ProPublica, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Since then, the firm had yet to receive all the information necessary to proceed with the audit, Jennings wrote.
    — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2023
  • An audit firm, meanwhile, was discussing the city budget – which was really the problem.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2023
  • As of last week, the housing authority was facing a deadline of this Thursday to make a decision on the course of an audit.
    — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The issue of Tubridy’s overpayment emerged after an audit of RTE’s 2022 accounts.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 June 2023
  • Audit findings The audit found three main problems with the health authority’s handling of the grants in an eight-page summary in March.
    — Ben Botkin, oregonlive, 15 June 2023
  • The experts expect the first round of audit notices imminently.
    — Doug Gollan, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Next week, a legislative panel will convene for an audit to review the purchase.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Watson was one of multiple people to whom Meadows spoke and who stopped him from entering the place where the audit was being carried out.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
  • All 50 states and the District of Columbia must submit their audit plans for funding by December.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 26 June 2023
  • Something as simple as a home energy audit will help reduce waste and save you money.
    — Mike Augustyniak, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The amendment comes on the heels of a U.S. government watchdog announcing an audit of Buttigieg's use of government airplanes for some trips.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
  • An audit of the assistance by the P.B.G.C.’s inspector general turned up the overpayment last year.
    — Mark Miller, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Fagan was absent during a Zoom news conference timed with the audit’s release.
    — Larry Neumeister and Michael R. Sisak, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
  • The Hispanic student to faculty gap has remained significantly low for the past 20 years, the audit stated.
    — Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 10 Apr. 2024
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audit

2 of 2 verb
  • They audit the company books every year.
  • I audited an English literature class last semester.
  • The Internal Revenue Service audited him twice in 10 years.
  • And in the absence of a complaint, state boards don’t audit practices, said Robin.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Use an outside firm to audit the hiring process of teams.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
  • Cut-through is hard-won and there’s often a lack of time to deeply audit decisions.
    — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Set a timer for 20 minutes and ask the team to audit their rituals silently.
    — Mark Cruth, Quartz, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The judgment also calls for the individual stores to audit the prices of at least 30 items in the store each week.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2023
  • The bill requires the Secretary of State to randomly select eight towns or city wards to audit per election.
    — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • WhatsApp is also closed-source, so its code can’t be audited.
    — Kai Ye, WIRED, 23 July 2023
  • Except that today, the Cour des Comptes, the people in charge of auditing the use of public funds, want to say that films have to make more money, and be more profitable.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Mallo argued that the school system should not be charged with auditing itself.
    — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The House last week passed a law largely along party lines that would require the IRS to audit presidents' tax returns and make reports of the audits public.
    — CBS News, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Then the government audited outcomes, looking at factors such as how well patients were able to speak and how well their jaws aligned.
    — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Because smart contracts are publicly visible, the funds within them are easy to audit.
    — Vivek Ramaswamy and Mark Lurie, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Among other things, the bill would require unions to have audited financial statements, which would need to be made available to members.
    — Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
  • As part of its enhanced efforts, the IRS on Wednesday announced a new program to audit companies that own private jets.
    — William Gavin, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The agency has a contract with the accounting firm Deloitte to have a team work in Kyiv with the Ukrainian government to monitor and audit the aid money.
    — Michael Crowley and Edward Wong, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2023
  • But Schiff claimed that Republicans in particular are at the mercy of ultra-wealthy donors, and that those donors don’t want to be audited.
    — Owen Tucker-Smith, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
  • With an influx of body camera footage and other digital records in recent years, police now must audit and track a massive amount of files.
    — Kelli Smith, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Chambers said the agency already gets audited, and that for every big business that's lifted up, hundreds of smaller ones get a boost, too.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Some people will be audited because of these upgrades and change their behavior.
    — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The workaround relies on a gray area in Chinese law, which mandates that audit working papers produced in China must be kept within the country.
    — Michelle Chan, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Helt wants to establish strategic plans and audit the bureau to map out a plan to improve performance without more state funding.
    — oregonlive, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Businesses that use third-party AEDT software can no longer legally use such programs if they haven’t been audited.
    — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 5 July 2023
  • When the insurer moved to audit the clinic, staff members changed documents and test results to support treatment.
    — Amy Yurkanin | [email protected], al, 29 Aug. 2022
  • In the months since that initial Times report, authorities in Mexico have audited, raided or shut down more than 150 drug stores across the country.
    — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Ideally, every time a new string of code is written, it should be audited and tested separately and with the whole contract.
    — Dmitry Mishunin, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • In Arizona, where Trump narrowly lost in 2020, there have been sustained efforts to audit the outcome of the last presidential election.
    — ABC News, 2 Aug. 2022
  • One, founded at the University of Arizona more than a decade ago, allows people with special needs to audit college courses.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2023

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