blackboard
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They always at least stay around the proverbial blackboard, as Friedman calls it, in case a player’s market doesn’t develop as expected.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
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
Every game was the football equivalent of fingernails down a blackboard.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 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
I tried to solve the problem in my head, so that by the time I got to the blackboard, it would be figured out and I wouldn’t make a fool of myself.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
Images of sheets and blackboards tallying the results have circulated on social media, fuelling victory claims among both Biya and Tchiroma's camps.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
Since the blackboards were mounted low for children, “we would crawl and write equations,” Dr. Deser said.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
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
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
That was why everything put on the blackboards was quickly erased.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
