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Pigmented Japanese rice, especially black and green rice, scored higher on the researchers' health-promotion index because of their distinctive lipid profiles.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

One of the most sinister aspects of e-bike misuse is that riders often wear black balaclavas or "ballys".

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Sacks was on stage with Huang at a live taping, when Huang, clad in his usual black leather jacket, took the call.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Fashion heist films watched in a black box theater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Ahead, pulled off onto the snow at the side of the road, we saw it, a long black limousine with official government plates and curtained rear windows.

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

After yesterday's first session, O'Sullivan led 7-2, and stretched that advantage with a break of 62 before potting nine reds and eight blacks at the start of the 10th frame.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026

Some blacks with education and skills, like Ida Wells-Barnett, had managed to get away to cities like New York or Philadelphia or Chicago.

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

“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

At the same time, Mira’s suit is noticeably sleeker and blacker, less rubbery and reflective than Cheung’s, which feels like a nod to an increasingly digital, effects-reliant medium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2022

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

From Scientific American ● Apr. 14, 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

The great cavern that opened on the abyss was as black as pitch, black as tar, blacker than the feathers of a crow.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

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

“But I’m so stoked that I got to go in. I blacked out, I don’t even know what I was thinking, I’m just glad I got to prove myself.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

The other divers immediately went into the water again and they found Mahdhee had blacked out.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

Both were blacked out with matte spray paint.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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

“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

Those moderators have publicly protested earlier Reddit decisions, most recently blacking out much of the site for days when Reddit announced plans to start charging many third-party apps for access to its content.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

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