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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.
—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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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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Consultants can contribute not only an outside perspective but also pattern recognition from across businesses and markets.—
Raheel Sheikh,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Across from it, the fitting area disappears behind Schumacher curtains patterned with soft florals and a geometric trim.—
Lilah Ramzi,
Vogue,
7 May 2026
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Each dish can track only one satellite at a time and must physically rotate to follow fast-moving LEO satellites streaking across the sky at roughly 17,000 mph (28,000 km/h).—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 May 2026
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On court, Osaka wore a blue-and-green Nike dress streaked with vertical ruffles.—
Ava Wallace,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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The wind whips through my hair as the gleaming new fiberglass speedboat accelerates out of the calm bay and into open waters, striped in shades of turquoise, in defiance of the name.—
Lauren Keith,
Robb Report,
30 May 2026
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Over the course of three weeks and nearly 150 hours, Mike Elder carefully crafted his honeybee sculpture, welding on antennas and legs, sculpting the yellow and black-striped body from foam and precisely designing its intricate wings.—
Jenna Ebbers,
Kansas City Star,
29 May 2026
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Dishes of shepherd’s pie blanketed in smooth, buttery mashed potatoes flecked with cheddar cheese.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
4 May 2026
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Heintzman also devised a hot brown chowder, with a cream and broth base made to resemble the sandwich’s sauce, flecked with potatoes, corn, turkey, bacon, and tomatoes.—
Rich Warren,
Saveur,
29 Apr. 2026
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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.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
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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.—
Paula Disbrowe,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 May 2026
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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.—
Janet Kusterer,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Feb. 2026
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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.—
Terri Williams,
Forbes.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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On Tuesday, a few campaign signs speckled the cream walls of the room.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 May 2026
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Switzerland's natural beauty and breadth are astounding—snowcapped mountains with some of the world's best skiing, verdant valleys speckled with wildflowers, and quaint cities filled with cultural attractions and world-class restaurants.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
24 May 2026
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The paint is deftly mottled but its handling lacks the prowess of her later work (see, for example, Being Beamed, 1984, a fantasia of extraterrestrial teleportation in which the watercolor is sumptuous but perfectly controlled).—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Its flowers are huge and orange, marked or mottled with maroon splotches.—
Pedro Moura,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2026
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“Checker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/checker. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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