checkmate
Example Sentences
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But will either help their team to a checkmate position by full-time?
From BBC
In chess that might be checkmate, in chip design it’s computational efficiency.
From The Verge
He would loudly exclaim, “I don’t know what I’m doing,” followed soon after by, “Er, checkmate.”
From Washington Post
Altogether, those 14 words are a checkmate, voiced in Trenchard’s vulgar patois.
From Washington Post
A refusal to shoot from range, then, creates a checkmate.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
