to vet

Examples

• All

• I had three hours to vet the place.

  Mile 22 (2018)

• I mean, they had to vet all this with a lawyer.

  Vice (2018)

• But I try to vet people pretty well.

  Film Courage

• And then our students vet those new product ideas.

• But I just think it's at scale really hard to vet a lot of these claims.

• Simply use the process I described above to vet your staff and then market your services.

  Blog text (8)

• How do you vet people who want to be in your lab?

• We may need to reassess how we vet and elect people to higher office.

  Blog text (9)

• In September, the government established a mechanism to vet appointees for competence and integrity.

  Academic text (2007)

• In my haste to break a major story, I neglected... to perform my due diligence in properly fact checking and thoroughly vetting my sources.

  Freelance (2023)

Synonyms

C

to check

vsto vet

∞ 1.0

Examine something to make sure it is correct or true

is a more thorough review for acceptability suitability and qualifications than basic verification

I

to inspect

vsto vet

202 2.5

To look at something carefully to check if it works or is safe

aims to determine personal or role suitability and qualifications rather than only condition

S

to screen

vsto vet

97 3.4

Check people or things to find problems and decide if they are suitable

focuses more on judging overall acceptability and qualification than finding specific faults

Antonyms

I

to ignore

∞ 1.0

Choose not to pay attention to someone or something

O

to overlook

243 2.9

To not notice someone or something you should see

How Thorough

to investigate

∞ 2.8

audit

69 4.4

to vet

164 3.9

to inspect

202 2.5

check

720 1.0

to screen

97 3.4

to scan

127 2.7

Surface Forms

Etymology