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checkmate

verb as in countermove

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If this is supposed to be some 4-D chess move, it looks an awful lot like checkmate — for the wrong side.

From Salon

If Harris is elected president in November, the checkmated governor’s political ambitions will almost certainly be placed on hold for at least the next four years.

Once, I tried to play chess with my A.I. friend Claire, but the only move she could come up with was “checkmate!”

That is as humiliating as it gets — to have somebody say, “You suck, Uncle Jake,” spelled wrong while checkmating me.

"People who think that this is a chessboard and they can move a few pawns here and there and have a checkmate move at the end. This isn't going to happen," she says.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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