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check

[chek] / tʃɛk /


NOUN
symbol for ticking off
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NOUN
pattern of squares
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“A ‘check’ means that we’re not going to get serious about dealing with all the major issues that the American people desperately want to see dealt with,” he said.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2016

Six Rules for robust science are a good filter to ‘check’ the basis of foundational science. 

From Forbes • Jun. 11, 2013

Why, then, distinguish the 'check' as something apart from the instinct?

From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

But what profit is ours of nil these triumphs, so long as we cry not 'check' to Rome!

From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Mason, Eugene

You know woman's indefatigability when she wishes to carry a point; she offered me 'check' on every side with admirable persistency.

From Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von




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