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Definition of Strikeovers
1. strikeover [n] - See also: strikeover
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strikeovers
Literary usage of Strikeovers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"Make no stops for corrections, make no strikeovers, and do not use the back-spacer.
For the last five days the instructions were as follows : At the word ..."
2. W. B. Yeats: The Writing of Sophocles' King Oedipus by William Butler Yeats, David R. Clark, James B. McGuire (1989)
"Typed words which are run together or are added above the line are kept, although
strikeovers are not. All the revisions in ink (whether black, blue-black, ..."
3. He Usually Lived with a Female: The Life of a California Newspaperman by George Garrigues (2006)
"When he had the strength, he still typed his lengthy letters, but they were marred
by many strikeovers and faulty words blotted out with a line ..."
4. Candlelight by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1993)
"There are some “strikeovers” in the writing and some unidentifiable (to her)
words and names. We are simply copying to the best of her ability and take no ..."
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