checkerboard
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The first laser pulse served as the "shake," breaking apart the electronic 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
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
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
The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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
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
Offshore, a line of pelicans skirts the muddy turquoise water, and to the south, sunlight, cutting through wisps of fog, checkerboards the ocean and headlands toward the Piedras Blancas Light Station.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2017
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
