blackboard
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Dore-Smith said that the star had visited his Eastcastle Street coffee shop "a couple of years ago", and that they put his song lyrics on their blackboard during his last concerts in London.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
Even though it might be the same observation about the world, about what's on the other side of a blackboard, that feels different coming from the voice of a child.
From Salon ● May 22, 2024
“Then let’s get to work,” she says, heading for the blackboard.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
Images of sheets and blackboards tallying the results have circulated on social media, fuelling victory claims among both Biya and Tchiroma's camps.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
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
At the 4.16 Memorial Classroom, a museum dedicated to the students, the victims’ classrooms are re-created with desks, blackboards and other furniture from the school.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
It started, really, with those double pages that open the chapters that look like blackboards with white letters.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2022
There have been farmers and educators on both sides of my family ever since there have been tractors and blackboards, and there have been strong women on my mother's side for just as long.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
