chalk up

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The recent moves can be chalked up to “heightened geopolitical risk and a broader move away from the US Dollar,” Deutsche Bank strategist Henry Allen said Wednesday.

From Barron's

Gold’s impressive run of form can be chalked up to the so-called debasement trade, in which investors retreat from assets like the U.S. dollar due to concerns around fiat currencies.

From Barron's

Some of it he chalks up to bad luck.

From The Wall Street Journal

If he weren’t a trauma doctor, you might chalk up the missing headgear to romantic imagery and an homage to “Then Came Bronson.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Baffled, Redick said at practice that he chalked up the mistakes to “the holidays.”

From Los Angeles Times