checkmate
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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 ● Feb. 23, 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
Black rightly seeks queenside counterplay but can’t shake White’s single-minded focus on checkmate on the other wing: 19.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 12, 2023
"It's checkmate, we're screwed," one Tory MP remarked.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2022
He smiled a kind of "checkmate" smile and flipped open a manila folder that was about an inch thick with documents.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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
After years of jostling with Alatorre and his protege, Richard Polanco, Villaraigosa won over the former and checkmated the latter in his successful run for mayor in 2005.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
"She's almost checkmated herself. She can't U-turn. And pressing on seems terminal too," a former Downing Street spinner observes.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2022
It insisted the game was a draw, even though I had thoroughly checkmated my kid.
From The Verge ● Nov. 5, 2021
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
The original alliance, signed in 1902, was negotiated for a definite, limited objective—the checkmating of Russia’s over-weening imperialism.
From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard
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