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How to pronounce checkers in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms draughts
Type of board game

Examples of checkers

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Five of the last 10 drivers who won the championship took the checkers at Vegas.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
It needed an incredible team of fact checkers because there were over 500 pages.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Special language checkers are available, but they cost many thousands of pounds.
From the economist.com
It can use the spell checkers from Microsoft Office if Office is also installed.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Each of these presents unique challenges to non-English language spell checkers.
From the en.wikipedia.org
There's nothing like having an army of a million fact-checkers on Sunday morning.
From the sfgate.com
Lincoln contrived a crude checkerboard, with a little box to hold the checkers.
From the theatlantic.com
Spell checkers, such as those used in Microsoft Word, can operate in either mode.
From the en.wikipedia.org
At Koror, Suzuki played checkers with several of his tribemates to fight boredom.
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More examples
  • An attendant who checks coats or baggage
  • Check: mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on
  • One who checks the correctness of something
  • Variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns
  • One of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers
  • (checkered) checked: patterned with alternating squares of color
  • Checkers (known as draughts in the United Kingdom and some other countries), also called American checkers, straight checkers, or simply draught (especially in the United States and Canada), is a form of draughts board game played on an eight by eight squared board (with sixty-four total squares ...
  • (Checkers (dog)) The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made by United States Senator from California and Republican vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon on television and radio on September 23, 1952. ...
  • (Checkers (fast food)) Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. is the largest chain of double drive-thru restaurants in the United States. In June 2006, the Company went private through a merger with Taxi Holdings Corp., an affiliate of Wellspring Capital Management, a private equity firm.