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chalk

verb as in whiten

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England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt says that her team are "chalk and cheese" compared to how they felt after the Ashes defeat at the beginning of the year.

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The American was broken twice and trailed 4-1 but did offer some resistance in the closing stages, chalking one of those off, but didn't have enough to stop the six-time Grand Slam champion.

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But this couldn’t be chalked up to an impaired or distracted driver.

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Most recently, the school has banned students from writing on university sidewalks with chalk — a move critics believe is meant to quell pro-Palestinian speech on campus — and decorating their residence hall floors with a non-OSU-theme.

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She has also overseen a 25% drop in homicides, an impressive feat in a country exhausted by drug violence that she chalks up to her administration’s aggressive new crackdown on organized crime.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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