Hiro Murai

We always talk about how, obviously, there is still very in-your-face aggressive racism. But there's a lot of passive racism that, in the moment, you don't even realize is racist. You chalk it up as a strange interaction you had, and then you look at the context of it later on and realize the root of it was racism.

American Director

Jemele Hill

Anyone who generates opinion for a living is going to get plenty of feedback, positive or negative. Some people indeed don't like the fact that I'm a woman with strong opinions. And if they disagree with me, they are quick to point out what my gender is. I chalk it up to being the nature of people.

American Journalist

Jason Fried

Give your employees a shot at showing the company a new way, and provide the room for them to chalk up a few small victories. Once they've proved that their idea can work on a limited basis, they can begin to scale it up.

American Businessman

Ryan Bader

I've been through enough competition in amateur wrestling my whole life to know that sometimes you have off nights and you don't perform and chalk it up to that and move on.

American Mixed Martial Artist

Heywood Broun

I have always held to the theory that too much chalk may be just as bad for a novel as for a knee joint.

Heather Bresch

When I hear things like 'unpatriotic,' I just chalk it up to a lot of political rhetoric.

American Businesswoman

John Quelch

The only thing you need to set up a business school is a warm body and a piece of chalk.

American Educator

Joyce Meyer

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

American Author

Ritika Singh

I switched between professions that are like chalk and cheese.

Indian Actress

Rod Stewart

I was never a good-looking bloke. Not by a long chalk.

English Musician

Understand that 'chalk' refers to the origin material, often linked to geography and natural structures.

Geological Origin

Relate 'chalk' to classic educational settings where writing on blackboards was common.

Traditional Classrooms

Be mindful that 'chalk dust' can refer to the residue produced when using chalk sticks, which can be messy.

Chalk Dust Awareness

'Chalk' as a verb often implies temporariness, suitable for non-permanent markings.

Temporary Markings

In art, 'chalk' refers to colorful sticks used for creating drawings with a soft texture on paper.

Artistic Medium

'Colored chalks' mention a variety, not just the traditional white stick.

Varied Colors

'Chalk out' is a phrase meaning to plan or outline something thoroughly.

Planning and Organization

'Chalk up' can mean 'to attribute' something, often as an explanation for an event or behavior.

Idioms with 'Chalk'

'Chalk and cheese' implies two things are distinctly different, as chalk is to cheese.

Distinct Differences

The idiom 'chalk and cheese' is more commonly used in British English, less so in American English.

Cultural Phrase

 I turn around and said he's like we don't know how much carbon it takes to meet those we don't know how much carbon it takes to run them and and I was like okay fine but I want one of those rings I really want a smog range okay then the chalk dust guy to chuck like solving it with the truck this you know to me done

What I learned at...

 to not dissolve in water because if it dissolves in water then it's no longer a solid and it can't rub stuff off my teeth and I'm going to use something that you can find in rocks all over nature calcium carbonate otherwise known as chalk and because I don't want my toothpaste to taste horrible I'm

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 or a piece of chalk, or a -- I don't want to point to that, but -- or a shoe, or something like that? OK? Which you can completely ignore. So if the amygdala is excited, and this is something important, the messages then cascade into the autonomic nervous system. Your heart starts beating faster.

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 can help improve our lives. We don't bump into every neighbor, so a lot of wisdom never gets passed on, though we do share the same public spaces. So over the past few years, I've tried ways to share more with my neighbors in public space, using simple tools like stickers, stencils and chalk.

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 Does it mean the problem is over? The answer is no. There's still a long way to go, but that there's a will there. And that successes are being chalked up on this very important fight. So when you hear about corruption, don't just feel that nothing is being done about this --

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: How...

 As they dug, they installed lining rings to stabilize the tunnel behind them, making way for support wagons following each machine. Even at top speed, work had to proceed carefully. The chalk layer followed a winding path between unstable rock and clay,

How the world's longest...

 In fact, many of the, shall we say, unpleasant characteristics that we chalk up to being a teenager -- moodiness, irritability, laziness, depression -- could be a product of chronic sleep deprivation. For many teens battling chronic sleep loss,

Why school should start...

 foot with designs very similar to what we were photographing in thermal and today every morning as we watched chalk and ochre being applied to the body we started to realize that we were looking at images of deep time we became so

Carol Beckwith & Angela...

 and several straight lines. Researchers began to record what Panbanisha said, by writing lexigrams on the floor with chalk. Panbanisha watched. Soon she began to write as well.

Susan Savage-Rumbaugh:...

 daylight saving time people still debate why we do it and I'm happy to chalk it up as just one of those mysteries of the universe it's

Chalk

A soft, white, powdery limestone made mainly of the remains of tiny sea creatures.

A small stick of this stone used for writing or drawing on blackboards.

Often appears as...

To write or draw with chalk.

A pastel stick primarily composed of chalk, used for drawing.

To mark or write with chalk.

Often appears as...

To be completely different.

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