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The trial heard that analysis of an insurance company "black box" showed that Gray had been a "perfect driver" in the weeks before the collision.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

The story is deeper, more complicated, and far from clean-cut black and white.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

In the most recent report, nearly 80 percent of companies ranked trade policy changes among the four top threats, alongside weakness in the US economy, an external or "black swan" event, and poor vehicle sales.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

A pair of black antennae lie in front of her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

It could also be their new logo—a black fist that’s pumping in the air with a treble clef cut out in the center.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

So after he does his performance, he puts back on his blacks and he does his job, and I love that for him, to have that sense of responsibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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

Lindy Hop, the grandfather of all swing, emerged in 1920s New York during the Harlem Renaissance—an explosion of black artistic creativity following the Great Migration of blacks from the rural South to the urban North.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

The plaintiffs claimed Section 2 required a second such district on the rationale that blacks make up 30% of Louisiana’s voting-age population.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Whether he could conjure up a vision of blacks and whites living together in harmony at some unspecified time in the future remains unclear.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

“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

The press corps that landed in Ferguson after a black 18-year-old, Michael Brown Jr., was fatally shot by a white police officer, was blacker than most big American newsrooms.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2020

Standing in front of us, it seemed much bigger, much blacker, much less friendly than I remembered.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang

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

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

Semple, who went to war with fellow artist Anish Kapoor over the latter’s exclusive rights to the world’s blackest of blacks, made his first red when he was 17.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

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 in the blackest times ever ready with a joke...Father’s courage was an inspiration never to be forgotten by any of us.”

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

Brovdi’s team drove me to the meeting points in a vehicle with the windows blacked out to obscure any glimpse of the route to secret locations somewhere in southeastern Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Clinton swimming with Ghislaine Maxwell in one undated photo; reclining in the hot tub next to the person whose face has been blacked out.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026

Then—I don’t know, I must’ve blacked out, because the next thing I knew my back was against a wall, in an entirely different place, and a strange girl was talking to me.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

"On Saturday I was blacking in and out, I didn't know what to do," she said.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026

“It was barely off the bat before I started blacking out and trying to get to the field. I almost fell over the rail,” Kopech said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2024

In a twist on condo conversions, some people even remodeled the upper floors of their homes — blacking out windows and drilling ventilation holes — to make them habitable for swiftlets.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

As he took up a brush and a tin of blacking, he said, “So the future’s looking bright for Molly.”

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan