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Botelho said Lula will attempt to rally those who cast blank votes, and the 33 million who abstained -- representing 21 percent of registered voters.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Some 23% of voters said they had no interest in the election, while 10% planned to cast a blank or null ballot or stay home, according to a recent survey by polling firm Quaest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

From the dining table below, where a young Charley often helped her grandmother fill blank planes with delicate dots, Caland could look up and see how far her line had taken her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

We're not we're not starting from a blank slate.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

I turned to go, my mind blank, my eyes blurry.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

You will be spending limited time with him in person, which means you’ll be filling in a lot of blanks yourself.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

"Every stage is crucial," explains master cymbalsmith Hasan Seker, a burly 56-year-old who co-founded Bosphorus Cymbals in 1996 and is sweating after hauling glowing blanks into and out of the furnace.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Fishery inspectors relied on local pearling leaders and divers to fill in cartographic blanks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The reporting since then has filled in the blanks.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026

To just believe it lets me fill in all the blanks.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

HBO the canvas is wider and blanker, and Sinclair says that the previous episodes put them under pressure too.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2016

Eilis’s innocence couldn’t be purer or blanker if she had been imported straight from “Little Red Riding Hood,” and the simplicity of the good—and the bad—folk back home in Enniscorthy couldn’t be more apparent.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2015

On that first day, I glimpsed Ayano in the intensive care room, wrapped in a red and blue blanker, struggling to breathe, his eyes tipped back into his skull.

From Time Magazine Archive

The men hovering around us all had that murky quality to their expressions—blank smiles, blanker eyes.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

Monsieur Dupont's face had become blanker and blanker.

From The Crooked House by Brandon Fleming

"No," said the Spain coach, with the blankest of looks on his face, after being asked if he had seen a better team than his at the European Championship.

From Fox News ● Jul. 5, 2021

“No,” said the Spain coach, with the blankest of looks on his face, after being asked if he had seen a better team than his at the European Championship.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2021

“She looked at me right in the eye with the blankest face, the blankest white pale face, a face that haunts me to this day, and says, ‘I love you,’ he recalled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2016

“It was a failed experiment. I was singing something about how expensive my hormones were, and I just got the blankest face from him.”

From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2016

None of his “leads” had led anywhere, except, perhaps, down a blind alley toward the blankest of walls.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

Joan spent the last few weeks of her pregancy at a mother and baby home - but she said she had "blanked out" the birth.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

When Roberts pulled Yamamoto in the sixth, he had blanked his opponents with 10 strikeouts, four hits and two walks.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026

He blanked out his mind and refused to think critically.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025

Suspicions were also raised when planning documents for the embassy had parts of the blueprints blanked out when they were submitted to Tower Hamlets council, marked "redacted for security reasons".

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

His sight caught Donovan and blanked out while Donovan’s thin shout whimpered and died in his ears.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

Despite blanking in Chelsea's 4-0 win last gameweek, you just can't ignore Palmer in what should be another comfortable victory at Stamford Bridge.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025

And that form carried over into this week’s wild-card series, with the Padres blanking the Braves 4-0 in Game 1 before advancing via a victory in Game 2 on Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024

The Kraken are 6-0-2 in Daccord’s past eight starts and he posted his second shutout in the last three weeks after blanking Florida on Dec. 12.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 1, 2024

Temporarily blanking on names and misplacing items is normal.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023

“It’s hard to say. Maybe I was mistaken about them being there in my living room. I can’t account for anything I see when I start blanking out,” I said.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith