checkerboard
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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
Powers and his team repeatedly paired a projected checkerboard visual display with a one-second tone.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2025
So instead of going back to bed, Jojo ran to get the checkerboard.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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
Nearby hotels — usually lit up before dawn like checkerboards — were almost completely dark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2020
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
Not being versed in heraldic lore I may say briefly that the shield bore checkerboards and conventionalized lilies in alternate quarterings, while the crest was a mailed arm holding a burning torch or cresset.
From In Jeopardy by Sutphen, Van Tassel
