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Both sides wore black armbands and several players shed tears during the period of silence, while Andrews' number five jersey was laid out on the turf in front of the Lions' team.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Kessler, standing nearby during Williams’ postgame news conference, poked his head out from behind a black curtain and gave his teammate a thumbs-up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

On busy nights, I’d estimate the wait, scribble down a last name, party size and pager number in black pen, then hand over a pleasantly hefty plastic puck.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

"I always saw him in black, looking very serious and hunched over. He wouldn't say good morning or good evening."

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Squinting, I watch the black horse and rider grow smaller and smaller.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

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 straightforward intent of Title VII was to outlaw racial discrimination in the labor force, where blacks were being kept out of jobs and denied promotions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

The plaintiffs claimed Section 2 required a second such district on the rationale that blacks make up 30% of Louisiana’s voting-age population.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Robert Horton had marveled, even before the migration, at the power of blacks living in Chicago to elect their own.

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

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

Designed for use in high-end screens, micro-LEDs promise blacker blacks, brighter blues.

From BBC ● May 28, 2020

That had been during the early days when I had felt strong restrictions and resented Emma's boldness and her opinion that I should have been blacker to play my role of Harlem leader.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

“The contrast between that and the moon is so extreme — the moon becomes the blackest thing you’ve ever seen. ... It’s just like a hole punched in the universe.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 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

She sorted through them carefully, and selected the oldest, biggest, blackest, rustiest key.They went into the drawing room.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

The details were blacked out as the district attorney continues an investigation into the devastating fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

Clinton swimming with Ghislaine Maxwell in one undated photo; reclining in the hot tub next to the person whose face has been blacked out.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 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

This week Hurricane Lowell lashed Hawaii with damaging winds, heavy rainfall and powerful floods, blacking out power across most of one island.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

Mr Rogers, 20, passed away after blacking out during a swim training session at Armagh's Orchard Leisure Centre in April 2017.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2025

He said it was the closest he had come to blacking out onstage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2023

“I think the reason that you redact records like this, records that are just silly to redact in the first place, it’s about normalizing the blacking out of records,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2023

Before blacking out from pain, Stockdale heard the drone of American planes above.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin