checkmate

Example Sentences

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But will either help their team to a checkmate position by full-time?

From BBC

Right before signing the bill, there was a smugness about Newsom as he said, “I don’t want to say this is checkmate. But this is a major problem for the NCAA.”

From Los Angeles Times

A checkmate given the current look of the board would go down in history as Kliavkoff’s Miracle.

From Los Angeles Times

That could be a near-certain checkmate for Democrats in the 2024 election, given Republicans' gerrymandered control of state legislatures in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and elsewhere.

From Salon

But “checkmate” is the “shut up” of chess — the irrefutable sign that the game is over and the king is about to be lost.

From Washington Times