checkerboard
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Together, the two electronic phases form something resembling an atomic-scale checkerboard.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 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
For added whimsy, the tree is the centerpiece of an “Alice in Wonderland”-style checkerboard of tile and grass.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2025
Not that he’d recognized its divinity at first — not in this flat rectangle wrapped in checkerboard paper; its attached clump of gray ribbon curlicues looked like the head of a mop.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
Familiar tilings such as checkerboards and honeycombs repeat in a regular way.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
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
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
