blackboard
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They always at least stay around the proverbial blackboard, as Friedman calls it, in case a player’s market doesn’t develop as expected.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
Looming behind the bluesman is a blackboard, on which a genealogy of the blues has been chalk-drawn in an orderly hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
The host walked me to the seating at the back of the restaurant, and we passed a huge blackboard that read, “Leave a message for Mr. G or Lady G.”
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2024
One of the first buildings players enter - the local pub, of course - has a blackboard outside advertising today's special.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2024
In an office with a conference table and a blackboard, the Plumbers dissected Daniel Ellsberg.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Supporters on both sides are claiming victory based on images circulating on social media of blackboards and papers tallying the results.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
The Michigan artist’s paintings can resemble palimpsests, reused documents that reveal multiple levels of text or imagery, or explicitly evoke partly erased blackboards.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2022
The group has collected photographs of about 200 messages left as graffiti or written on blackboards in schools.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
It started, really, with those double pages that open the chapters that look like blackboards with white letters.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2022
That was why everything put on the blackboards was quickly erased.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
