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Another fan, a nail artist, crafted spooky bespoke black and purple press-ons decorated with intricate white hares.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

These broadsides, with their all-capital letters in fuchsia against a black background, are hard to miss.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Some of these black holes contain millions or even billions of times the mass of the Sun, yet they already existed less than 600 million years after the Big Bang.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

In the front row, Oxford, in a black Tapout T-shirt, shadowboxes and cheers him on.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Then as I watched, a kind of odd, old farm wagon—old fashioned and out of place in the middle of a city—came lumbering across the square pulled by four enormous black horses.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

Seemingly to discredit the precedent, she argues the Court is too quick to dismiss the idea that the Bruen history test should include post-Civil War Southern laws disarming blacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

In the penultimate frame of the match, O'Sullivan looked on course for a maximum 147 break, potting nine reds and eight blacks, before opting to go for a blue in a break of 113.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026

One barrier facing potential voters was the poll tax, a special tax required of all voters that many blacks and poor whites could not afford to pay.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman

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

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

‘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

Both of them were so covered with ashes they looked like the pot and the kettle, each one blacker than the other.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

Semple created the “pinkest pink” paint in 2016 as a reaction to artist Anish Kapoor purchasing and reserving the artistic rights to the Vantablack pigment, said to be the world’s blackest black.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

There were pigs as well: the biggest, blackest boars that any of the ironbom had ever seen and plenty of squealing piglets in the brush, bold creatures that had no fear of man.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 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

“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

The sky blacked by the smoke from flaming vehicles was visible from Saunders's suite in a luxury hotel along Puerto Vallarta's main strip.

From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026

An ambulance careened into the alley and raced toward us, its headlights blacked out so that only pinpricks of light shone through.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

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

She also said she has a history of blacking out and that doctors have been unable to determine why.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2026

"I was blacking out and fainting," Ms Davies, a tattoo artist, said.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2024

Those moderators have publicly protested earlier Reddit decisions, most recently blacking out much of the site for days when Reddit announced plans to start charging many third-party apps for access to its content.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

“You’d best take a swab at your shoes with a blacking brush,” she said.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck