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check

[chek] / tʃɛk /


NOUN
symbol for ticking off
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NOUN
pattern of squares
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But it warned that "disruption is expected to continue", asking passengers in an X post to check with their airline before travelling to the airport.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

The news of a result surprised even the wonkiest researchers inside OpenAI, who scrambled to check it by using their own AI agents.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Belfast's two airports have both advised passengers to check flight information.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

A reality check on my estimate of the Vanguard 500 Index fund’s 50-year performance percentile comes from the track records of investment newsletters that were calculated by my performance auditing firm.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

The policeman wanted to read the letter himself, and even then he still wanted to check that the garden where Marlene was being kept was secure.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

Tourism checks a lot of boxes for Beijing’s planners.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

He seldom checks his phone and admits he’s not good at returning texts.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

When CPL buys an item, its system records the retail price; when a patron checks it out, that amount gets added to the running total.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

The system then checks those readings for errors and combines them into a single package.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

He scratches his tail, checks his whiskers for dirt.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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

At the end of the interview, in 1971, his future boss made a crack to a colleague: “Have you checked his arrest record?”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

The envelopes would have to meet new design standards, including unique barcodes that have to be checked by the Postal Service.

From Salon Sep. 2, 2026

That could mean that one problematic ballot in a mailing of 10,000 prevents the other 9,999 from being sent until the discrepancy is resolved and the batch checked again.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

She was checked over and told to go home.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

She checked the e-mail and there was nothing there, either.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

Milwaukee’s festival calendar stretches well beyond these two, so if your visit overlaps with one, it’s worth checking the city’s full schedule before you arrive.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

However, implementing solutions to block it for children may require checking whether the user of a phone, or app, is an adult or a child.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

After checking out a painting that looks like Keanu Reeves meets “Cast Away” in the Wyeth room, head to the sourthern view-port, the best of three such spaces on the fourth floor.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

She was checking people in on the pier for a separate boat tour to Sazan on a replica galleon that advertises the opportunity to “be a pirate for a day.”

From Slate Sep. 8, 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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