chalk up
Britishverb
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to score or register (something)
we chalked up 100 in the game
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to credit (money) to an account etc (esp in the phrase chalk it up )
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Score or earn, as in She chalked up enough points to be seeded first in the tournament . This term alludes to recording accounts (and later, scores) in chalk on a slate. [c. 1700]
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Credit or ascribe, as They chalked their success up to experience . [First half of 1900s]
Example Sentences
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The key difference between the actions of a company like Browne’s or university researchers and those of Minimax or DeepSeek can be chalked up to a few things.
From MarketWatch
The ill will is chalked up to the idea that everybody hates a winner.
On Wednesday, equities also got hammered despite January’s surprisingly strong jobs report, action which strategists chalked up to a more complicated outlook for inflation and interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.
From MarketWatch
Johnson, who has never tested positive for a banned substance, chalked up the failure to “human error.”
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
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