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checkerboard

[chek-er-bawrd, -bohrd] / ˈtʃɛk ərˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /
NOUN
check
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The two patterns together create the checkerboard arrangement of coexisting electronic phases.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

A makeshift DJ booth, assembled from a couple of upended shopping carts and some speakers, is at one edge of the checkerboard in the dimly lighted room, underscoring the general do-it-yourself ethos of Rosales’ aesthetic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025

Breakfast is in the common area, at one of the round tables with checkerboard patterns in the center.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

Familiar tilings such as checkerboards and honeycombs repeat in a regular way.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

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

Not being versed in heraldic lore I may say briefly that the shield bore checkerboards and conventionalized lilies in alternate quarterings, while the crest was a mailed arm holding a burning torch or cresset.

From In Jeopardy by Van Tassel Sutphen


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