checkmate
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Because Leela had, in a sense, learned to extend games as long as it wasn’t losing, it didn’t always take the most direct path to checkmate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
As Kagan put it, “if this isn’t checkmate, it’s close.”
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
But the moment Washington forced an error by the Broncos’ defense, the Huskies called checkmate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2025
Ackman presented the director’s allyship as a checkmate even though, once again, neither he nor Oxman denied any of the reporting on the substance.
From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2024
Immediately, the ablutionist moved his knight into checkmate.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
The finale presents a remarkable range of checkmates for the hapless Black king: 24.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
Rxa8, and White soon to be queened pawn will help deliver checkmates in a couple of moves.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
She exploits every scrap of ironic humor, as Richard gloatingly checkmates all who stand in her way.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2018
Karjakin threatened no less than four checkmates, and there’s no way Carlsen could have sidestepped them all.
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2016
In sixty seconds flat, she checkmates her opponent’s king.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
"You've been crying behind the scenes to get out of this fight. I've checkmated you. You have to fight," Fury replied.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
It insisted the game was a draw, even though I had thoroughly checkmated my kid.
From The Verge ● Nov. 5, 2021
In the first rapid game Adams was White in the ultra-solid Berlin Wall butMcShane launched a fierce attack which ended with Adams’s white king checkmated at d7, deep in the black camp.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2018
On the surface, it seemed that Thiel’s conspiracy had checkmated Gawker Media.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2018
Papa had just checkmated Jaja when we heard the martial music on the radio, the solemn strains making us stop to listen.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
That is as humiliating as it gets — to have somebody say, “You suck, Uncle Jake,” spelled wrong while checkmating me.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2024
Partly that was because of the checkmating defense by his old coach, Bill Belichick, and partly it was the pelting rain and chill winds, which had once been his home-field allies.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2021
Harris was also asked about Chargers receiver Keenan Allen’s dismissive comments about Harris last week after the Broncos star cornerback was primarily responsible for checkmating the league’s top receiver in Denver’s 20-13 win.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 15, 2019
They imagined they could corral him and use him to achieve their own purposes, such as checkmating labor unions and reasserting German strength.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2018
In Kansas free-State emigration was outstripping the South in numbers and checkmating her in border strife.
From Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 by John George Nicolay
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