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Recent Examples of checker
The technology has long been quietly embedded in daily lives, in tools such as spell checkers and spam filters.
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Yasmin Green,
Foreign Affairs,
7 July 2025
That is what work looks like when it is deeply felt, when the audience’s concerns become ours, passed by bucket brigade from the subjects of our stories, to correspondence, to producers, to editors, fact checkers and writers.
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Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
3 July 2025
The red and white checkered patterned was reminiscent of the color scheme from one of Wimbledon’s most popular treats — strawberries and cream.
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Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
2 July 2025
We were seated in a bright-white dining room at a table with a green and white checkered tablecloth (a nice touch).
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Keith Pandolfi,
The Enquirer,
26 June 2025
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Yasmin Green,
Foreign Affairs,
7 July 2025
That is what work looks like when it is deeply felt, when the audience’s concerns become ours, passed by bucket brigade from the subjects of our stories, to correspondence, to producers, to editors, fact checkers and writers.
—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
3 July 2025
The red and white checkered patterned was reminiscent of the color scheme from one of Wimbledon’s most popular treats — strawberries and cream.
—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
2 July 2025
We were seated in a bright-white dining room at a table with a green and white checkered tablecloth (a nice touch).
—
Keith Pandolfi,
The Enquirer,
26 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for checker
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Many of the injuries displayed rectangular, band-like and patterned characteristics consistent with impact from a belt-like object, Detective Balders wrote.
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Today, though, a growing number of online fabric retailers have made sourcing the right print or pattern a cinch.
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Just be sure to look for liners topped with rust-resistant metal grommets, as a trail of rust streaking your liner is unsightly.
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Remove brown, yellowing, streaked, and spotted leaves by cutting them off as close to the ground as possible.
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The mother of two wore a green and white striped Cefinn Studio belted mididress and pointed Mary Jane flats from Rothy’s for her day out.
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Shop 12 of our favorite quilts for every style and budget, including floral, striped, solid, and more designs.
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Around us were rolling hills flecked with houses, dappled by the sun shining through the clouds.
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The scales on their wings fleck off and can’t be replaced.
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The 21st century has yielded no shortage of stylish horror marbled with devious veins of pitch-dark humor — Peter Strickland’s In Fabric, Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook, Halina Reijn’s Bodies Bodies Bodies, Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell, pretty much every Jordan Peele feature.
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Brisket is a tough, richly marbled cut that only turns tender after hours of low-and-slow cooking, when connective tissue breaks down and fat renders into the meat.
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Of course local photographer Geoff Baker was out and about in the storm as well, and his black-and-white shot of Main Street, with the snow specking the lens, is also memorable.
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When selecting a pattern, veined countertop patterns are the overwhelming favorite (75%), followed by 13% of homeowners choosing specked, and 12% choosing a uniform pattern.
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The views—mainly harbor but some over the city—can be enjoyed from plush velvet sofas, while in the more expensive rooms, bottles of spirits line the drinks table and arresting artworks speckle the walls.
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This stunning plant boasts toothy leaves, speckled with silvery white and supported by colorful, velvety red stems.
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The mosquito, mottled in neon pink and purple, can be seen on a nearby computer screen.
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The sides may be mottled with brown blotches.
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“Checker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/checker. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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