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black

[blak] / blæk /
ADJECTIVE
lacking hue and brightness; light-absorbing.
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ADJECTIVE
enveloped in darkness
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On a recent Thursday he was inside a black cage stuffed with yellow wires checking a cross-connect cable that links one customer’s operation to another’s.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

Images posted on social media showed officers handcuffing a man wearing cargo shorts and a black T-shirt from the “Terrifier” horror franchise.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

"In the direction of the airport we saw black smoke and fire," one resident told the agency.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

And while his impartiality occasionally and inevitably falters, the missteps show how difficult, and ultimately useless, it is to ignore humanity’s wide-ranging gray areas to make a beeline for black or white.

From Salon Sep. 19, 2026

One, two, three people already in the secret room; four as Eusie’s black shoes and scarlet socks disappeared.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Fiel, vice president of brand and creative at the AI-native startup Newton, loves reinventions of utilitarian clothing, favoring functional pieces in deep greens and blacks.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

What 250 years means: To me, it means that we’re still here, we’re living, we’re breathing… The blacks and browns, you know, us sticking together, I feel like we accomplished a lot in 250 years.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

“On a number of issues that would primarily impact conditions in low-income communities, grassroots blacks have registered opinions that are sharply at odds with the positions taken by the civil rights cadres.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2026

At the time, one Nigerian man told BBC Pidgin: "It is not okay because we are blacks, we are brothers... everybody comes here just to survive."

From BBC May 3, 2026

At noon, the officers of the Eighth were photographed, preserving for future generations a record of the part to be played by blacks in the great battle ahead.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

That way, the words you’re typing are bolder and blacker.

From New York Times Jan. 1, 2023

“Liberation Day” is different only in that the humor is a little blacker, the fears of our exploitation more intense.

From Washington Post Oct. 21, 2022

But now with more inclusive views of beauty, we celebrate Blackness of all shades including the classic Tupac homage “the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice.”

From Scientific American Jun. 17, 2022

‘Happiness’ Black comedies don’t come much blacker than Todd Solondz’s unrated, controversial 1998 tale of suburbia and its discontents.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 10, 2022

He brought out the flashlight and focused the round spot on a rickety stairway leading upward into a still blacker darkness.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight.

From Salon Sep. 7, 2026

Comparisons with other major tropical rivers show that the Ruki may even be the blackest large blackwater river on Earth -- it's certainly a lot darker than the famous Rio Negro in the Amazon.

From Science Daily Oct. 18, 2023

When winds were bearable, we sought bliss, sat, admired the aurora australis as an escape from our blackest abyss.

From Scientific American Jun. 19, 2023

And like many behind bars, he was plagued by the blackest of thoughts but worried that voicing them would “burden” everyone.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2022

On every side of us were great big, black hills, and behind these were even bigger, blacker hills, and behind these were the biggest, blackest hills.

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis

The details were blacked out as the district attorney continues an investigation into the devastating fire.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

In another video, the same woman debriefs the experience: “I just blacked out and spent nearly 600 euros at the French pharmacies. So, let’s go through everything I got.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

We couldn't see Ahmadzai because the car had blacked out windows.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

With Pompeii’s sun blacked out, he stumbles around in the dark with a flashlight.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

“It’s not just this building. The whole city is probably blacked out. Where’s Julie? Did she eat already?”

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer

The high surf in California comes as another storm system, Hurricane Lowell, lashed Hawaii with damaging winds, heavy rainfall and powerful floods, blacking out power across most of one island.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

She also said she has a history of blacking out and that doctors have been unable to determine why.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 5, 2026

Mr Rogers, 20, passed away after blacking out during a swim training session at Armagh's Orchard Leisure Centre in April 2017.

From BBC Jan. 28, 2025

“I think the reason that you redact records like this, records that are just silly to redact in the first place, it’s about normalizing the blacking out of records,” he said.

From Seattle Times Feb. 8, 2023

Briefly, she considered blacking them with her mother’s paint, but the effort seemed too great, and would fool no one.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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