checkmate
has checkmated
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present perfectof checkmate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Furthermore, France has checkmated Germany for the present.
From Time Magazine Archive
Captain Armstrong, I swore if ever I caught you, that you should pay dearly for that daring trick of yours—that bold capture of a fellow-officer, sleeping by my very side—but this lady has checkmated me.
From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Love in '76 An Incident of the Revolution by Oliver Bell Bunce
You must let me know when she has checkmated you.
From The Precipice by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
It is evident that White has checkmated Black.
From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
