checkerboard
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In Gedik's laboratory, they cooled the samples to roughly -230 degrees Celsius, cold enough for both charge density waves to exist simultaneously in the checkerboard pattern.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 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
For added whimsy, the tree is the centerpiece of an “Alice in Wonderland”-style checkerboard of tile and grass.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2025
This outfit combined the designer's two famous patterns - the LV monogram pattern on the waistcoat and jacket, as well as the damier checkerboard on the shorts.
From BBC ● May 5, 2025
Lissa slumped on the couch and propped her feet on the coffee table, further disturbing the order of the checkerboard.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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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
The wildfires that devastated Southern California, reducing entire neighborhoods to checkerboards of ash, have left behind tough questions about how to rebuild in this land of dry brush and wind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 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
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
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