Chalking [verb]

At first, some employees chalked up the challenges to the pandemic.

You can chalk that up to whatever theory you wish, but with the race narrowing in late October, there was no reason for a politically motivated investigation not to be used for political purposes.

The two companies chalk up the job cuts as a necessary cost of their larger 2050 net zero ambitions, but investors aren’t fully buying this line of reasoning as they layoffs come amid a deeply punishing year for the oil and gas industry.

These include drawing a line of chalk beyond the door to a home to encourage families to stay home, an idea borrowed from the Hindu Lakshmana Rekha myth.

IBEW Local 569 also chalked it up as a huge win, issuing a statement that thanked the mayor, Gómez and other Council members.

Dunn was there, with several others, measuring out distances and chalking lanes.

Meanwhile—or later, between church and luncheon—Waltheof, in the billiard-room, was chalking a cue.

I will not go back to revive a name wiped out; it is at least more entertaining to stay here and try chalking out a new one.

A little, wiry fellow, with cheerful Cockney speech, he stood chalking his cue at a window.

It is the custom of the Germans to spare certain houses in every village by chalking up some laudatory notice.