chalk

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He knows the food he prepares isn't great but chalks it up to a learning experience.

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Some are clean and bright, others are weighty and round and fruity, while others are chalky and taste like minerals, as though someone melted down the chalk and limestone soils found throughout Champagne and turned them into a sparkling drink.

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Populations of resident honkers have become so dense in some areas that they’ve created safety issues for humans and wildlife, from sidewalks chalk full of gander feces to dangerous plane strikes.

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My laptop’s keyboard became choked with chalk after months of building grids between attempts at whatever problem I was projecting.

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In what is best chalked up to the difference between the brashness of a Philly guy in Auriemma and the Midwesterner inside Lisa Bluder, Clark’s coach, the bragging on behalf of her player has a few more caveats.

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A young girl roller-skated up and down the plaza, running her wheels over chalk that read “Domestic terrorists not welcome.”

AIRBNB TO CANCEL ALL D.C. RESERVATIONS DURING INAUGURATION WEEK AS SECURITY IN THE CITY IS TIGHTENEDEMILY DAVIES, MICHAEL BRICE-SADDLER, MARISSA LANG, JUSTIN JOUVENALJANUARY 13, 2021WASHINGTON POST

Some more can be chalked up to changes Snapchat made this spring, when it began plugging non-skippable Snap Ads into slots where it couldn’t sell its pricier Snap Commercials.

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Henry gave his younger sister a gentle pat, as she returned with her workbag and fished for the chalk.

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He looked up at Kip, his face chalk white in the uncertain light.

HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUS

Chalk is a very pure form of carbonate of lime, and where it abounds has been largely employed as an application on the soil.

ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRYTHOMAS ANDERSON

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