checking off
Example Sentences
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When Jovan Granado-Gomez completed paperwork for his new job, he carried out an act of protest by checking off one box.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
Victors went beyond checking off a list of hastily scrawled names to thanking entire categories of people: women, ancestors, Koreans, audiences.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
You start planning the rest of your life: telling your spouse you may eventually become incapacitated; looking into long-term memory care; checking off as many bucket list items as you can.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
But that “reckoning,” in the business world, largely ended up just being a couple of marketing agencies checking off a box.
From Slate • Dec. 12, 2024
I am supposed to do it this way, precisely but fast, checking off the day hour by hour the way a bright-eyed kid might reel off what he just got for Christmas.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
