checkerboard

The first laser pulse served as the "shake," breaking apart the electronic checkerboard.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 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

For added whimsy, the tree is the centerpiece of an “Alice in Wonderland”-style checkerboard of tile and grass.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2025

To his right, the flatlands of Berkeley and Oakland marched west—a vast checkerboard of neighborhoods, with several million people who probably did not want their morning interrupted by two monsters and a filthy demigod.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

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

On any given afternoon at Reclaim Clay, which Wilson and Matsuo started in a former fortune cookie factory, studio members might lounge around, joking while carving stripes into mugs or painting checkerboards on vases.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

Not being versed in heraldic lore I may say briefly that the shield bore checkerboards and conventionalized lilies in alternate quarterings, while the crest was a mailed arm holding a burning torch or cresset.

From In Jeopardy by Van Tassel Sutphen