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checkered

[chek-erd] / ˈtʃɛk ərd /


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It still features the dazzling double staircase and checkered marble flooring in the grand entryway.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 17, 2026

But “Reality Check,” a new Netflix docuseries now streaming that examines “ANTM” and its checkered history through the accounts of those who were a part of it, is not affiliated with Banks.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 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

Both the soldiers and the villagers have on black pajama clothes and red-and-white checkered scarves with mud stains on their bottoms and knees.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung




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