checker

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Recent Examples of checker Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg suggested at the time that the fact checkers had become too politically biased, and that resulted in a lack of trust. Peter Suciu, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025 Looking for a solution, English artist Norman Wilkinson approached Britain’s King George V with models of ships adorned in zig-zag and checkered patterns in shades of gray, black, white, green, orange, and blue. Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2025 Related article Meta is getting rid of fact checkers. Clare Duffy, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025 From there, countless talented folks finalized these pages, from design, to fact checkers to copy editors to our production team. Caroline Newton, Bon Appétit, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for checker
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Verb
  • Ars Video The question being asked here is what happens if the damage that induces regeneration happens while the animal is still developing at a time when wnt signaling is normally patterning the animal's organs.
    John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Though small, a white light switch cover can stick out like a sore thumb on a dark or patterned wall.
    Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Within seconds, their left forward Pam Woodworth, 72, streaked past three Togolese defenders, white ponytail flopping.
    Ryan Lenora Brown, NPR, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Despite being undersized at almost every position against a streaking Arkansas team, the Red Raiders charged back down the stretch behind clutch play on both ends.
    Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Needing a par on No. 18, McIlroy striped his drive, but just hung his wedge approach out to the right and into the green side bunker.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Apr. 2025
  • The grey, striped tabby on Vito Corleone's lap wasn't actually in the original script.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Next comes a far more rustic, free-form ceramic filled with a cream made from almonds and wild onions, flecked with fresh peas, fermented split peas and yuzu rind and covered with tiny flowers and herbs, among them lemon thyme.
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The shrimp butter will also return to spread on warm pieces of toast flecked with sea salt, as will the whole roasted chicken served with maitake and challah migas.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 17 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • 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
  • Dunk them into a water marbling bath, then paint the tops metallic and add a satin bow to hang them.
    Amy Panos, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Dec. 2024
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
  • Thick cut cucumbers are speckled with yukari salt, which is made up of red shiso leaves and has hints of herbs like basil and mint and a subtle cinnamonlike taste.
    Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The blue is speckled with some white flecks, which reminds me of blue enamelware pots and pans for a down-home aesthetic.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The Argentine tegu has mottled black and white skin.
    Cheryl McCloud, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
  • These spots stand out against dark brown backgrounds, mottling their typically beige or gray bodies.
    Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2024

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