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It included a black and gold military-style jacket, worn at multiple public appearances during the Dangerous and HIStory eras.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Both are outlined in black on an off-white background.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

By the time he ushered Nate Cavanaugh back into his big black car, Colin had a fully formed opinion of him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

"He was the one who brought a lot of the early artwork to the table and kind of created this black metal image."

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The woman’s skin is so black, she could’ve walked out of a Kerry James Marshall painting.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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

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

And they enjoy considerably more support among white and upper-income Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents than among blacks, Hispanics and lower-income voters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 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

In some cases, blacks have forged alliances with whites and Latinos to elect black mayors, senators, and congressmen.

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

Last month a subset of the same team, using artificial intelligence to analyze the original data, generated a sharper image that showed a thinner doughnut of doom surrounding an even blacker center.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 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

There was no hint of another color in his coat; it was blacker than moonless midnight.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

It is almost certainly the blackest black possible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2024

Semple, who went to war with fellow artist Anish Kapoor over the latter’s exclusive rights to the world’s blackest of blacks, made his first red when he was 17.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 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

Jefferson was guilty of “the blackest calumny and foulest falsehoods” during that bitter campaign.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Infantino arrived at Fifa's offices in Rabat, Morocco on Wednesday in now-familiar fashion, chauffeured to the building in a motorcade, sitting in the back of a Mercedes with blacked out windows.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Ahmadzai was driven to court in a grey Hyundai i30 with blacked out windows for the hearing.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

“But I’m so stoked that I got to go in. I blacked out, I don’t even know what I was thinking, I’m just glad I got to prove myself.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 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 one that had been in her hands when the world blacked out.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau

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

"On Saturday I was blacking in and out, I didn't know what to do," she said.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026

“It was barely off the bat before I started blacking out and trying to get to the field. I almost fell over the rail,” Kopech said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2024

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

One may apply blacking as one will—for it is not in the application, but in the buffing, that the art of blacking lies.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson