checkerboard

Together, the two electronic phases form something resembling an atomic-scale checkerboard.

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

In front of the sink he built a small bar out of discarded lumber and covered it with scavenged tiles: blue- and-white arabesques; Neapolitan checkerboard; red heraldic dragons; and local, earth-tone Pewabics.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

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

Nearby hotels — usually lit up before dawn like checkerboards — were almost completely dark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2020

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