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check

[chek] / tʃɛk /


NOUN
symbol for ticking off
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NOUN
pattern of squares
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In the end it emerges, however confusingly, that Varsha’s abilities are crucial to the work of environmental activists; supernatural forces may be the last check on mankind’s destruction of the earth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

“You can guess if you check out the name.”

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

My assumption has always been that on average they were reasonable, but a reality check can’t hurt.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

Then it became just this thing during sound check or maybe in the middle of sets, we’d just start jamming these random progressions and stuff, and it kind of just evolved from there naturally.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

That done, I put a big check next to the point next to belowdecks.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin




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