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check

[chek] / tʃɛk /


NOUN
symbol for ticking off
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NOUN
pattern of squares
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Moderna’s experimental cancer vaccine is getting a reality check, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

McKay's answer is to have someone independent check the map before anyone uses it and rub out the lines that are wrong.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

I suspect the S5’s hotness was deliberately kept in check in order to make the halo-car RS 5 look all the more desirable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Miller and Ruffin have made frequent trips to West Palm to check on the rebuild.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

But then he realized that tomorrow morning he wouldn’t have to check and see if the twins had booby-trapped the whole place.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

He quit the civil service in 1994 and subsisted on welfare checks while teaching himself to write plays because they seemed simpler than movies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

At the land border with Benin, health forms were generic, asking about fevers but not mentioning Ebola and without temperature checks, an AFP reporter observed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

The New York University researchers say that technical fixes offered by the companies selling these systems aren't enough unless someone independently checks how the data was produced in the first place.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

But as I recently discussed with Prudential’s head of research, David Blanchett, insurance contracts for monthly checks solve a need that people say they want: guaranteed income in retirement.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

The checks were written in the squat, neat print of Momma’s manager, Wynn.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

Eli is making a party mix that contains pretzels and chex.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020

How many cups of pretzels and how many cups of chex does he need to make 12 cups of party mix?

From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020

For each cup of pretzels, he uses three cups of chex.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020

But by the time I opened the app to make my case, my shopper had already checked out.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

Thursday was stressful for people who checked their portfolios—especially if they owned hard-hit Meta or data-center stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

I make fun of it, and at the end I say go get checked because getting checked is gonna save your life, bro.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Teachers scooped up the stragglers and ushered them into the shelter's entrance, while the cleaner scanned the playground, muttering as she checked that no one had been left behind.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

I checked my mobile phone to confirm it.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

Romano says anyone can audition to be a scare actor and recommends checking the Thirteenth Floor website for more information.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

Meanwhile, Denson told me, nearly everyone had converted all their money to cash, fearful that they could get locked up or deported at any moment, and lose access to checking accounts.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

Wearing drill-sergeant regalia, Porowski instructs a group of hapless male shopper actors in such supermarket fundamentals as distinguishing celery from leeks, checking expiration dates and identifying ripe bananas.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

Morris suggests explaining this card system to your niece and then checking in at regular intervals to make sure she’s following the rules.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

“I was just checking to see if you’d left yet,” she said, not looking directly at him.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley


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