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checkerboard

[chek-er-bawrd, -bohrd] / ˈtʃɛk ərˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /
NOUN
check
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Together, the two electronic phases form something resembling an atomic-scale checkerboard.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

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

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

I made a checkerboard of peanut butter wafers and slowly began to eat my breakfast as I searched through the newspaper.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

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

The wildfires that devastated Southern California, reducing entire neighborhoods to checkerboards of ash, have left behind tough questions about how to rebuild in this land of dry brush and wind.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 12, 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

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




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