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
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
Indeed, in the brain scan study, voice hearers with diagnosed schizophrenia were the last to catch on when the researchers made the appearance of the checkerboard more independent from the tone.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2025
This outfit combined the designer's two famous patterns - the LV monogram pattern on the waistcoat and jacket, as well as the damier checkerboard on the shorts.
From BBC ● May 5, 2025
It pretty much looked like my high-school cafeteria, with the floor that looked like a checkerboard and the wobbly brown tables.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
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
The scars left behind — charred hillsides, entire neighborhoods like checkerboards of ash and rubble — reveal only a fraction of what January wildfires took from Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 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
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 Van Tassel Sutphen
