struck out

By 1850, as in the contract of John Henry Smith, some employers simply struck out the word apprentice on the preprinted contract form and wrote in the word servant.

Ideally, the researchers would have struck out completely — none of the 156 orders delivered, given the state’s ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, and certainly none delivered by the Postal Service.

Somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright / The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, / And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; / But there is no joy in the White House—mighty Kamala has struck out.

He first joined his business in 1968, but soon struck out on his own in the heart of Manhattan.

And after Treinen struck out Rizzo to end the inning, there was one more player who needed to rise to the occasion.