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check

[chek] / tʃɛk /


NOUN
symbol for ticking off
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NOUN
pattern of squares
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State law requires schools to periodically check kids’ vision starting in kindergarten.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

Bird designed tools to help the kids budget, and holds weekly money meetings to check in and reinforce the ideas she hopes her children, now 11, 9 and 8 years old, will internalize.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

People are being advised to stay indoors as much as possible, and check for loose items outside that need securing ahead of the warnings coming into effect.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

And check the test page again after you clean up your tech: If you were the only party infected on your IP address, your network should get the all-clear within two weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

He stopped frequently at my bench, the first weeks, more to check my frame of mind than my work.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom