PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. The oldest sequence starts with chess, then stop and restraint; verification and banking are later semantic branches.
/tʃɛk/ · verb · noun
To verify, restrain, mark, or issue a bank draft today; a word whose oldest English history begins with a threatened king in chess.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Orders the chess, restraint, verification, counterfoil, and banking developments.
Word History; ordered sense noteExplains the anti-forgery counterfoil behind the financial sense.
CheckThe semantic history displays branching rather than projecting the modern meaning backward.