tick off

In meetings with prospective investors, Sanberg ticked off the names of his Hollywood investors.

"This is one I can tick off and there's not many left."

Bob Webb, 74, a chief operating officer at a Pittsburgh law firm, lives near the trail and ticked off its hills and swerves until his brother from Maryland interrupted.

The exasperation over a lost water bottle, the frustration of mismatched shin guards, the stress of ticking off a mental check-list when rushing out the door—I loved how ordinary these problems felt.

He ticks off a list of the Powell Fed’s perceived flaws: “Wrong track record, wrong operating framework, lack of curiosity, and lack of credibility.”