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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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They later travel to the castle in a fleet of black cars, before Winkleman chooses her traitors while everyone wears their blindfolds.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Northumbria Police said a black Audi A3 came off the road at Panns Bank near Wearmouth Bridge, in Sunderland, and went in the water just before 13:30 BST on Tuesday.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

In the low-lighted galleries, painted black, deep purple and green, Evans’s proliferating eyes flitted between predators and prey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Astronomers have known that active black holes release immense energy, but exactly how that energy travels across such enormous distances and changes along the way has remained unclear.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

She brought it into the dining room where we had covered the windows with heavy black paper and set out the best cups.

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

An Emerson College survey last year put overall support for the tax-credit program at 64%, including 61% of Democrats, 68% of Hispanics and 63% of blacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

Of the indicted, five were convicted: three blacks and two whites.

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

Last month a subset of the same team, using artificial intelligence to analyze the original data, generated a sharper image that showed a thinner doughnut of doom surrounding an even blacker center.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 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

This jacket was two other colors — black and blacker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2022

“It’s big, and it’s blacker than coal,” Jewitt said.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 14, 2022

The sky turns even blacker still around, them.

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling

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

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

It is almost certainly the blackest black possible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2024

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

I took a gulp of the blackest tea I’d had in years and tried to think of Soraya, of the general and Khala Jamila, of the novel that needed finishing.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

Ahmadzai was driven to court in a grey Hyundai i30 with blacked out windows for the hearing.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

This president’s name is no mystery to readers, but perhaps out of legal caution it always appears blacked out, as though the novel were a redacted intelligence document.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 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

I hit the step and flipped over into the pool as I blacked out for a second.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

This week Hurricane Lowell lashed Hawaii with damaging winds, heavy rainfall and powerful floods, blacking out power across most of one island.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 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

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

Barely made it to shore before blacking out.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin




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