blackboard
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Looming behind the bluesman is a blackboard, on which a genealogy of the blues has been chalk-drawn in an orderly hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
"It may be like chalk on the blackboard, it may grate a little bit, but I am telling you something that is really quite honest," he said on Saturday.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025
The host walked me to the seating at the back of the restaurant, and we passed a huge blackboard that read, “Leave a message for Mr. G or Lady G.”
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2024
Even though it might be the same observation about the world, about what's on the other side of a blackboard, that feels different coming from the voice of a child.
From Salon ● May 22, 2024
There was, instead, a blackboard, covered with words and numbers written in white chalk.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
Supporters on both sides are claiming victory based on images circulating on social media of blackboards and papers tallying the results.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
The Michigan artist’s paintings can resemble palimpsests, reused documents that reveal multiple levels of text or imagery, or explicitly evoke partly erased blackboards.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2022
The group has collected photographs of about 200 messages left as graffiti or written on blackboards in schools.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
At the 4.16 Memorial Classroom, a museum dedicated to the students, the victims’ classrooms are re-created with desks, blackboards and other furniture from the school.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
Downstairs were lecture halls and classrooms, all of them empty, with clean blackboards and freshly waxed floors.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
