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  • After your initial instinct to cooperate has petered out, of course, a fact checker's questions begin to seem somehow—inapt.

    Fact-Checking Your Fiction Con Chapman 2011

  • There are price guides, but it is largely at the checker's discretion.

    Notes from the bins (What if No One's Watching?) 2009

  • Incidentally, CTV's Bob Fife is a fact checker's nightmare, but oddly wjm hasn't set his sites on that guy yet.

    A spotter's guide to plants and other political flora Ed Hollett 2007

  • I have been through a certain checker's grocery line with fennel so often that she can now identify what she considered an obscure oddity.

    Farmbox VIII: Fennel: Two for One Lindy 2005

  • A tired-looking middle-aged woman in a grocery checker's outfit was the only other person in the laundry, and apparently it irked her to see a man put underwear and socks in with blue jeans and a red shirt.

    Homebody Card, Orson Scott 1998

  • Since then he had learned to read the checker's face to some extent.

    A Hole In Space Niven, Larry, 1938- 1992

  • The checker's eyes said: And that's why I've decided not to wipe your personality yet.

    A Hole In Space Niven, Larry, 1938- 1992

  • The checker's name had changed pronunciation in two hundred years.

    A Hole In Space Niven, Larry, 1938- 1992

  • The checker's voice was flat, his mouth pinched tight.

    A Hole In Space Niven, Larry, 1938- 1992

  • The feeling might have been caused only by the checker's rather narrow features, his icy blue gaze and abstracted smile.

    A Hole In Space Niven, Larry, 1938- 1992

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