checkered
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He wore his usual casual billionaire outfit — white-and-cardinal Nikes, jeans, checkered shirt with rolled-up sleeves and a colorful Southwestern-style fabric belt.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
It still features the dazzling double staircase and checkered marble flooring in the grand entryway.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 17, 2026
Musk’s previous combinations of SolarCity with Tesla and X —formerly Twitter—with xAI point to a checkered history of value creation via mergers.
From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026
All of which is deeply ironic, considering Miami’s famously checkered history of slipping cash to players.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
The checkered tile floor became slick with rain and mud, and it took all of my concentration not to slip.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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