crossing-out

It used to be five closely written pages (with much crossing-out, but still), plus the file on the computer for things I should look up to see if the library has them.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2008

By my estimation, this historical crossing-out of the deficit will save American taxpayers millions, billions, and perhaps even bajillions of dollars.

Stories from The Onion that Deserved to Be in the AER, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

However, I am a very bad writer, and I've been trained too heavily on good old backspace/cut-and-paste/etc., so to make sure I didn't fill pages with crossing-out I drafted everything I wrote on spare paper first, before transcribing.

phluid61 Diary Entry phluid61 2006

Okay, I have to ask... how do you get the strikethrough the crossing-out lines in your words?

One Bright Star (1B*) Reignited 2006

When Rhoda had come across it in the loft, it had just seemed an artist's dissatisfaction with a crude piece of work - a crossing-out in crimson.

The Fifth Rapunzel Gill, B. M. 1991

If every crossing-out represented a robbery, there had been literally hundreds since the scheme began.

In The Frame Francis, Dick 1976

"You've found the crossing-out tool haven't you, and my word you're gonna use it," says Michael Ollier.

The Guardian World News 2009

“And if the child wrote the correct answer, but then, on second thoughts, decided it was wrong and crossed it out, the crossing-out still gained the mark.

A failing mark 2008

* Scholars at the Mark Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley, have identified no less than fifteen distinct “crossing-out” styles in Mark Twain’s letters.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

* Scholars at the Mark Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley, have identified no less than fifteen distinct “crossing-out” styles in Mark Twain’s letters.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005