rook
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But on the 55th move, Ding committed a fatal blunder – moving his rook into a position to be taken.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024
At the far end of one row, Officer Richard Kruse claimed an easy victory over Jessie Milo after knocking his rook out with a bishop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
Nb3+, Black is about to go down a full rook; Zhu resigned.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
“If you make the right moves in the right steps, it can become a rook, it can become a queen, it can become a bishop,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2023
And now I can recall the picture of the grey old house of God rising calm before me, of a rook wheeling round the steeple, of a ruddy morning sky beyond.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Now, it seems the poison wasn't consumed by rodents - but by rooks and crows.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2024
They are mostly rooks and jackdaws, which are locally-protected species.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2024
There’s a scene for every type of player, whether you’re looking for a frenetic round of speed chess à la Beth and Benny in “The Queens Gambit” or a mellow conversation over rooks and bishops.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2023
Khamrakulov’s two bishops can still harass the Black rooks, but a fatal new problem emerges just as White finally restores nominal material equality: 27.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 29, 2023
He also says somewhere that ‘the rooks, in the breeding season, attempt sometimes, in the gaiety of their hearts, to sing—but with no great success.’
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
To put it another way, he may have rooked the Twitter stockholders whose shares he bought out of $170 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2022
He was the 12th Rangers player to make his MLB debut this season, and the club-record 25th rooked used by Texas.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2021
That doesn’t sound like much, but compared to players like Francesco Molinari and Hideki Matsuyama, who have around the same win probability, you’re getting rooked on that number.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 6, 2019
So don’t be shocked or feel rooked when you spy an actor or two onstage with script in hand.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2019
When Mike had paid his hotel bill, very few pounds were left for the card-room, and judging it was not an hour in which he might tempt fortune, he "rooked" a young man remorselessly.
From Mike Fletcher A Novel by Moore, George (George Augustus)
New York Jets rooking quarterback Zach Wilson makes an incredible touchdown run and the rest of the best plays from week 16 of the NFL.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2021
McDermott said rooking starting right tackle Spencer Brown is expected to return after missing two games with a back injury.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
Lewis showed promise as a rooking in creating pressure off the edge, getting two sacks in 124 defensive snaps.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2021
But after more than a decade of rooking the world, finally realized he was down to one move on the chessboard – confessing.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 17, 2013
"I never did—" "You've been rooking this boy for months," cried Miss Qian.
From The Opal Serpent by Hume, Fergus
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