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checkerboard

[chek-er-bawrd, -bohrd] / ˈtʃɛk ərˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /
NOUN
check
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They include the removal of the black-and-white checkerboard floor, which fans of the show came to recognize and love.

From MarketWatch May 22, 2026

But to try one of Vancouver’s most beloved Chinese restaurants, make for Chinatown BBQ, where the checkerboard floors and hanging meat evoke a classic Cantonese chopshop.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 27, 2025

Powers and his team repeatedly paired a projected checkerboard visual display with a one-second tone.

From Salon Jun. 3, 2025

This outfit combined the designer's two famous patterns - the LV monogram pattern on the waistcoat and jacket, as well as the damier checkerboard on the shorts.

From BBC May 5, 2025

The British had set up a new camp in Brooklyn on Long Island, and Washington was moving his troops around like pieces on a checkerboard.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

For a restaurant better known for cornbread and checkerboards than market volatility, the whole thing had the air of an identity crisis unfolding in real time.

From Salon Aug. 22, 2025

At an atomic level, 2D slices of solid materials can be thought of as giant checkerboards in which the pieces are electrons and the vacant spaces are “holes,” which behave like positively charged electrons.

From Science Magazine Dec. 20, 2023

Some rural counties in the middle colonies were virtually all German or all Scots-Irish, while others resembled checkerboards of different religious and ethnic communities.

From Textbooks Jan. 18, 2018

Offshore, a line of pelicans skirts the muddy turquoise water, and to the south, sunlight, cutting through wisps of fog, checkerboards the ocean and headlands toward the Piedras Blancas Light Station.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 10, 2017

He drove into the hatches of his checkerboards and rummaged around, but he didn't find nothing but holes, I jedge, because he looked dreadful put out, and begged our pardons five or six times.

From Cape Cod Stories by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby




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