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  • verb Present participle of spellcheck.

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Examples

  • Google's Motorola acquisition should help it resolve numerous user complaints about Android, whose solutions will probably be passed along to other partners: battery life issues, crashing apps including Google's own, confusing settings, spellchecking weirdness, and the overall impression that Android has been cobbled together.

    Eliot Van Buskirk: Google Copies Apple with Motorola Acquisition Eliot Van Buskirk 2011

  • SF Signal's spellchecking readership has returned.

    REVIEW: Serenity: Those Left Behind by Joss Whedon, Brett Matthews and Will Conrad 2009

  • Google's Motorola acquisition should help it resolve numerous user complaints about Android, whose solutions will probably be passed along to other partners: battery life issues, crashing apps including Google's own, confusing settings, spellchecking weirdness, and the overall impression that Android has been cobbled together.

    Eliot Van Buskirk: Google Copies Apple with Motorola Acquisition Eliot Van Buskirk 2011

  • The inessentialness of copy editors is underscored by the advent of sophisticated spellchecking systems which have introduced a hole new level of error-free proofreading.

    Stet // 2008

  • The inessentialness of copy editors is underscored by the advent of sophisticated spellchecking systems which have introduced a hole new level of error-free proofreading.

    June 2008 2008

  • It's not sporting to taunt compulsive spellchecking dweebs, BSNYC.

    Heat-Addled: Cooler Heads Will Prevail BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Or you need to do a better job spellchecking when you post her stories on your site.

    Friday, March 20 – The Bleat. 2009

  • “Serious help” is arguably idiomatic, but inarguably crude, and it should be “better job OF spellchecking.”

    Friday, March 20 – The Bleat. 2009

  • Or you need to do a better job spellchecking when you post her stories on your site.

    Friday, March 20 – The Bleat. 2009

  • For 875 USD you could get 2 Master degree graduates to do quantitative methods, regression testing and spellchecking on thousands of pages or wash your laundry for a whole month.

    Stumped, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

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