checkerboard
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In Gedik's laboratory, they cooled the samples to roughly -230 degrees Celsius, cold enough for both charge density waves to exist simultaneously in the checkerboard pattern.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
They include the removal of the black-and-white checkerboard floor, which fans of the show came to recognize and love.
From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026
The red and white checkerboard of Croatia's home kit is another classic design that evokes tournaments past.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
But to try one of Vancouver’s most beloved Chinese restaurants, make for Chinatown BBQ, where the checkerboard floors and hanging meat evoke a classic Cantonese chopshop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
In front of the sink he built a small bar out of discarded lumber and covered it with scavenged tiles: blue- and-white arabesques; Neapolitan checkerboard; red heraldic dragons; and local, earth-tone Pewabics.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
For a restaurant better known for cornbread and checkerboards than market volatility, the whole thing had the air of an identity crisis unfolding in real time.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2025
At an atomic level, 2D slices of solid materials can be thought of as giant checkerboards in which the pieces are electrons and the vacant spaces are “holes,” which behave like positively charged electrons.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023
Some rural counties in the middle colonies were virtually all German or all Scots-Irish, while others resembled checkerboards of different religious and ethnic communities.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Offshore, a line of pelicans skirts the muddy turquoise water, and to the south, sunlight, cutting through wisps of fog, checkerboards the ocean and headlands toward the Piedras Blancas Light Station.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2017
He drove into the hatches of his checkerboards and rummaged around, but he didn't find nothing but holes, I jedge, because he looked dreadful put out, and begged our pardons five or six times.
From Cape Cod Stories by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
