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- noun Plural form of
strikeover .
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Examples
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The most noticable characteristic of the publications was that they were the worst-looking legible fanzines ever published: abounding strikeovers; paragraphs nonexistent; edges of the stencil crowded, no spacing after periods; misspellings; overuse of caps, quotation marks, and underlines; wandering, unplanned sentences; countless simple gramatical errors like “can and has went” source
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There were more strikeovers and cross-hatchings than plain writing.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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There were more strikeovers and cross-hatchings than plain writing.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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Walenn had gone to such pains over it that he'd even hand-lettered strikeovers, as though some of the letters had been mistakes and been typed over with the right one.
THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951
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His fingers failed to coordinate on his typewriter and his manuscript copy turned out rough, with strikeovers, xxx-outs, and gross mistakes.
The Fourth R George Oliver Smith 1946
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He brought the piece near a lamp, the better to find his way through the strikeovers and scribbled corrections of a first draft. ... "-will argue that, while Egyptian religion had origins as primitive as any, it developed a subtlety comparable to Maimonides or Thomas Aquinas.
The Unicorn Trade Anderson, Poul and Karen 1984
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