checkmate

Example Sentences

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If this is supposed to be some 4-D chess move, it looks an awful lot like checkmate — for the wrong side.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2025

Ackman presented the director’s allyship as a checkmate even though, once again, neither he nor Oxman denied any of the reporting on the substance.

From Slate • Jan. 10, 2024

Black rightly seeks queenside counterplay but can’t shake White’s single-minded focus on checkmate on the other wing: 19.

From Washington Times • Sep. 12, 2023

"It's checkmate, we're screwed," one Tory MP remarked.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2022

One mistake is the argument that discovery claims are necessarily retrospective because ‘discovery’ is an ‘achievement word’, like checkmate in chess.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton