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There was much that was familiar about Burnham's speech in front of the famous black No 10 door, which was thronged with staffers and supporters.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

His hair, previously dyed jet black, had gone entirely silver and his thick mustache had been replaced by a scruffy beard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Scatter the pancetta and pecorino around the eggs, then season generously with black pepper.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

“It is sort of a black box in terms of why something is authorized and why something isn’t,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

I hurried to the shiny black automobile beside which she was standing.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

The yawning gap between the policy preferences of elites and those of rank-and-file blacks remains today, but it was just as obvious three decades ago.

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

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

Initially, blacks brought to this country were not all enslaved; many were treated as indentured servants.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

The former journalist, who was documenting the wreckage during his descent, described the darkness of the Atlantic ocean as "blacker than you could ever imagine" with temperatures dropping to 2C.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2023

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

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

His people have shimmering skins rendered in the blackest of tones; in some cases they camouflage themselves into shadow and night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

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

That omission was described by Dr. Lemkin as “the blackest day” of his life.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2022

There were sharks every day, mainly makos and blue sharks, but also oceanic whitetips, and once a tiger shark straight from the blackest of nightmares.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

The sky blacked by the smoke from flaming vehicles was visible from Saunders's suite in a luxury hotel along Puerto Vallarta's main strip.

From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026

Sure enough, the man who played the Consigliere in The Godfather pulled up in a car with blacked out windows and shared a few minutes with me.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

She said that she had trouble breathing and felt like she could have blacked out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025

I’d hoped, faintly, that he might have blacked it all out.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Yet in recent months, the utility has heard a chorus of complaints from communities including Moorpark and Malibu that it is blacking out customers even when the winds are calm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

"I was blacking out and fainting," Ms Davies, a tattoo artist, said.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 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

Mr Choudhury said it was a miracle he survived his fall in 2021 after he asked two walkers to take his photograph before suddenly blacking out and plunging down the ravine.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2023

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