checker

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Recent Examples of checker Related article Meta is getting rid of fact checkers. Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 14 Jan. 2025 With drivers battling for bragging rights and early-season momentum, expect plenty of action from green flag to checkered. David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025 In the landscape of a story, fact checkers’ trails can often be followed along a path of hedges and denials, but an elegant fix may render the footwork behind it invisible. Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2025 The move from third-party fact checkers to what Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls community notes — similar to the system used by Elon Musk’s X —will be the last straw for many users of Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for checker
Recent Examples of Synonyms for checker
Verb
  • Similarly, a brightly colored or boldly patterned style can set the tone for a new decorative scheme.
    Clint Davis, People.com, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Woodson said he’s patterned his game after former Cal teammate Cam Bynum, a 2021 fourth-round pick by the Minnesota Vikings.
    Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Defying gravity This week, flaming debris from a SpaceX launch vehicle streaked across the skies over Germany, while what may have been a fuel tank landed in Poland.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The descriptions are diverse: luminous balls rolling along the ground or floating above it, aurora-like clouds in the sky, streaks shooting through the air, all in a range of color.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Hardly wide enough to stand on, sometimes as thin as a phone case, teensy balconies have been striping the façades of new, multifamily buildings across Brooklyn and Queens at a rate inversely proportional to their usefulness.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Some are near-alabaster or silvery, others the darkest of greens, and there are variegated choices, striped or mottled in gold or white or silver.
    Margaret Roach, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Shilpa lovingly stroked cloth flecked with gold that clocked in at 380 euros a meter, and visualized the shawl that could be made from it.
    Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Image But the quality is dubious: smelly, cloudy and flecked with debris.
    Abu Bakr Bashir, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • This ham is spiraled and salty, with lots of yummy marbling around the sides.
    Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2024
  • There’s a nice mix of experience and youth marbled through the lineup, with Kyle Connor, Mark Scheifele and Nikolaj Ehlers leading the offence.
    Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The 656-foot vessel, called the Golden Ray, has been lying since early September off a slice of the Georgia coast specked with resorts and sprawling high-dollar homes.
    New York Times, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Now, their territory has fewer than 1,000 residents and consists of about 7,300 acres, with roads wandering through woods specked with modest family homes.
    New York Times, New York Times, 22 June 2018
Verb
  • Seated behind a white grand piano speckled with color, Batiste brought Kansas City Chiefs' Chris Jones to tears, as the defensive player wiped his eyes with a tissue.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2025
  • The Aztecs, nonetheless, are primarily Mexican, speckled by a few Ecuadorians and a Honduran member.
    Mayolo López Gutiérrez, NPR, 1 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Some are near-alabaster or silvery, others the darkest of greens, and there are variegated choices, striped or mottled in gold or white or silver.
    Margaret Roach, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The soil was mottled with sheep droppings and uneven patches of grass.
    Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Feb. 2025

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