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check

[chek] / tʃɛk /


NOUN
symbol for ticking off
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NOUN
pattern of squares
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It showed me that he’s trained them to check back with him at every opportunity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

In the U.S., comparable sales fell 0.2%, hurt by weaker traffic trends that were largely offset by check growth, McDonald’s said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

"We check his Halloween sweets every year, we had never had any issues in previous years but we always check," she said.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Party leaders vowed the morning after to respond to voters’ mandate on affordability and to check executive power, as members of both parties predicted the results would reshape politics for years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

"It's no good to stay at the check stations," Oteg said.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Inflation affects everyone, but especially older Americans, many of whom rely heavily on Social Security checks.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

U.S. stock indexes surged on hope that legislative gridlock, an AI slowdown and checks on presidential power will mark the start of a new era for the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

It recently repealed a pair of arcane provisions giving roughly three million public-sector retirees and certain disabled retirees larger Social Security checks at a cost of about $200 billion over 10 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

The UK and EU have agreed a draft deal on removing post-Brexit checks from food and agriculture exports, ahead of the UK-EU summit later this month.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Father checks the supplies, the wagon wheels, the leads and reins on Belle.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

These values can be checked repeatedly without changing the information.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

Jimenez left the scene, checked in at a hospital and subsequently was arrested, the footnote said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Some of them know they need glasses but haven’t gotten their eyes checked or bought their own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Most states require a formal post-election audit that involves a manual count of ballots checked against machine totals, although rules vary across the country.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

If the roles were reversed, I would have checked on my friend every day—and not just to get gossip!

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

He moved in with my 93-year-old father in 2023 and took care of him, hiring the care my dad needed using my dad’s checking account.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

You can always keep up to date with the long-range prospects by checking our latest monthly outlook.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

At times, she said, she was the only worker in the store, juggling the register, stocking shelves and helping customers, as well as counting inventory and checking cooler temperatures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

The readers, which are typically mounted on patrol vehicles or light poles, work by continuously scanning license plates and checking them against vast databases of cars wanted in connection with crimes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

I glance over my shoulder, checking to make sure Mom is still in the hallway with Babs.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy


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