chalk up
Example Sentences
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When contradictions pile up, they are chalked up to style rather than substance.
From Salon
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.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.