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checkpoint

[chek-point] / ˈtʃɛkˌpɔɪnt /
NOUN
place to stop, assess something
Synonyms
STRONGEST
assessment point border crossing checkpost control customs customs booth guardhouse guardpost milestone police blockade test point waypoint weigh station
STRONG


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Quail co-led the research, which examined how diet influences the effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitors.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

The Israeli military said soldiers had rushed to the Judea Junction area, also known as the Farsh al-Hawa checkpoint, after the early-morning shooting attack.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Moderna believes that the vaccine can be used for any patient who can be treated with Keytruda and other immunotherapies, which are known as PD-1s or checkpoint inhibitors.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

It remains unclear whether the businessman passed through an official health checkpoint when he crossed the border.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

His employer says he should ride a Volkswagen van called a' combi through a checkpoint about forty minutes north of town.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

In the final phase, the elite international team that escorted her had to dodge Venezuelan security forces and duck police inspections at checkpoints as it smuggled her north.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

The order exempts stops at ports of entry, checkpoints and other functional equivalents of the border.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Uganda has also "intensified traveller screening at Entebbe International Airport and all land border crossings, supported by screening at designated road checkpoints", it added.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

These stable arrangements serve as molecular checkpoints, narrowing the enormous number of possible assembly routes into a much smaller set of successful pathways.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

The line fed into a series of security checkpoints.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline


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