Definition of checkers
: a checkerboard game for 2 players each with 12 pieces
Updated on: 5 Aug 2018
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The brunt of Facebook's news vetting in Mexico falls to a small group of third-party fact-checkers, whose job is to play whack-a-mole — debunking one story at a time, with each taking several days to disprove.
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According to our fact-checkers, Trump has repeated this number at least 21 times.
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When Donald Trump tweeted on June 19th that crime in Germany had risen by over 10% as a result of refugees, fact-checkers responded that overall crime had fallen by a tenth since 2016, to its lowest level since 1992.
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Fact-checkers have expanded the use of video to reach people not inclined to read fact checks.
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Fact-checkers spring into action when Mr. Trump mischaracterizes immigration law or passes off debunked fables as historical facts.
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In the 1950s, an IBM engineer named Arthur Samuel created a checkers-playing program that learned in part by matching an alpha side against a beta side.
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Gingham Get ready to see a looooooooot of checkers this summer.
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Trump had used the descriptor to describe Todd in years past without inspiring much response, but the Twitterverse latched onto this utterance, sending fact-checkers into archives of Nazi propaganda.
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First Known Use of checkers
1712
CHECKERS Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of checkers for English Language Learners
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: a game played on a board (called a checkerboard) by two players who each have 12 round pieces called checkers
CHECKERS Defined for Kids
Definition of checkers for Students
: a game played on a checkerboard by two players each having twelve pieces
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