checkerboard
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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
Powers and his team repeatedly paired a projected checkerboard visual display with a one-second tone.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2025
Peewee had made a checkerboard out of some leaves he wove together.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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 scars left behind — charred hillsides, entire neighborhoods like checkerboards of ash and rubble — reveal only a fraction of what January wildfires took from Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 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
Some rural counties in the middle colonies were virtually all German or all Scots-Irish, while others resembled checkerboards of different religious and ethnic communities.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
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 Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
