chalk up

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Around 300 National Trust staff and volunteers will be involved, carrying about 17 tonnes of fresh chalk up the steep hillside, which in places has a gradient of roughly one in three.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

Given those gains, it would be hard to chalk up today’s moves to much more than profit taking.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

But shares are off about 5% in Tuesday morning action, which some analysts chalk up to Palantir’s sky-high valuation.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

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 • Jan. 6, 2026

He began to chalk up a list of all the student’s names.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss