checkerboard
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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
The red and white checkerboard of Croatia's home kit is another classic design that evokes tournaments past.
From BBC ● Apr. 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
My Converse squeak against the gray-and-white checkerboard vinyl floor as I follow the masses inside.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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
The scars left behind — charred hillsides, entire neighborhoods like checkerboards of ash and rubble — reveal only a fraction of what January wildfires took from Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 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
On any given afternoon at Reclaim Clay, which Wilson and Matsuo started in a former fortune cookie factory, studio members might lounge around, joking while carving stripes into mugs or painting checkerboards on vases.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
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 Joseph Crosby Lincoln
