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Scientists have taken a major step toward understanding cancer in cats, opening what researchers once described as a genetic "black box."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

Although it was the middle of the day, the sky was black.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Three people have been arrested in the case, all of whom are black.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

American star Kylie Jenner closed the show, draped in a voluminous black dress.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Zara squeals, transferring the squirming ball of black fluff into Jonah’s arms.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

In 2000-19, the prison-admission rate for violent crime dropped 20% for whites, 43% for blacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

So after he does his performance, he puts back on his blacks and he does his job, and I love that for him, to have that sense of responsibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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

Also in 1915, blacks played a decisive role in electing the mayor, Republican William Thompson.

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

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

“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

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

From Scientific American ● Apr. 14, 2022

‘Happiness’ Black comedies don’t come much blacker than Todd Solondz’s unrated, controversial 1998 tale of suburbia and its discontents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2022

Water cascades down, down, down from all sides of the square, swirling, pooling, and descending into another deeper, darker, blacker square.

From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

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

California settlers’ relations with Native American tribes constitute one of the blackest marks on the state’s history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2022

The Rainbow Race, Latinos from the blackest of black to the bluest eyes and blondest hair, all splashing their multihued complexion at the edge of Central Park.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

Brovdi’s team drove me to the meeting points in a vehicle with the windows blacked out to obscure any glimpse of the route to secret locations somewhere in southeastern Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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

A cavalcade of blacked out Mercedes, flanked by police cars, rolled into the Fifa headquarters in Rabat, Morocco, earlier this week.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Check it out, he says, handing you a sheet of paper with, get this, most of the words blacked out.

From "Booked" by Kwame Alexander

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

Over the weekend she said she continued bleeding and suffering a lot of pain, even blacking out on her way to the bathroom at night.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025

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

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

A shadow passed over her, blacking out the sky.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld