checkmate
Example Sentences
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"You've been crying behind the scenes to get out of this fight. I've checkmated you. You have to fight," Fury replied.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
It insisted the game was a draw, even though I had thoroughly checkmated my kid.
From The Verge ● Nov. 5, 2021
Both outcomes would ensure, they calculated, a shift in the regional balance of power in their favor and that their geopolitical rival Iran would be checkmated for the foreseeable future.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2019
The game overwhelmed her at first, so many pieces and movements, but years passed and progress was made, and eventually she checkmated her dad.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2018
Papa had just checkmated Jaja when we heard the martial music on the radio, the solemn strains making us stop to listen.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
