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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

So much so that covering the kitchen tile with blue and red checkerboard linoleum was one of their first dates in 2022, two years before Zaletel, 32, moved in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025

Powers and his team repeatedly paired a projected checkerboard visual display with a one-second tone.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 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 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

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 Sutphen, Van Tassel