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check

[chek] / tʃɛk /


NOUN
symbol for ticking off
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NOUN
pattern of squares
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Bird designed tools to help the kids budget, and holds weekly money meetings to check in and reinforce the ideas she hopes her children, now 11, 9 and 8 years old, will internalize.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

The platform made it possible for people to securely send money digitally using their email address, which was easier than writing up a check or filling out a money order.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Fortunately, you can check pretty quickly to see whether your home network is clean.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

After he cut her a $25,000 check — which wasn’t legal, as it came from what was supposed to be a charity fund — Bondi shuttered the fraud case against him.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

I check my time once I’ve gone a mile, and it’s only been seven minutes and forty-eight seconds.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison