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I’d take a sheet, draw a picture on the blank side and then turn it over to read the dialogue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Mention Rui Pinto's name to Manchester City fans outside Etihad Stadium, and you mostly get blank faces.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Take the “Gen Z stare,” that supposedly blank look younger service workers give customers expecting a burst of social acknowledgment.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
From the dining table below, where a young Charley often helped her grandmother fill blank planes with delicate dots, Caland could look up and see how far her line had taken her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
She smiled but looked as blank as ever, and her tongue wound around her mouth.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
No fog lights grace the front lower corners; the molded blanks in the lower grille look like waffle irons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Yet many companies have been waiting for the Treasury Department and IRS to fill in the blanks on the rules for contributions from employers and employees.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
But it is not hard to imagine those blanks being filled in as a new generation steps up.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The reporting since then has filled in the blanks.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
Not to mention the blanks in my own life.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
HBO the canvas is wider and blanker, and Sinclair says that the previous episodes put them under pressure too.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2016
Eilis’s innocence couldn’t be purer or blanker if she had been imported straight from “Little Red Riding Hood,” and the simplicity of the good—and the bad—folk back home in Enniscorthy couldn’t be more apparent.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2015
On that first day, I glimpsed Ayano in the intensive care room, wrapped in a red and blue blanker, struggling to breathe, his eyes tipped back into his skull.
From Time Magazine Archive
The men hovering around us all had that murky quality to their expressions—blank smiles, blanker eyes.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
Three halcyon days were followed by one of those dark and lowering mornings when the blank life seems blanker, and when the gloom of nature is too accurately reflected in the nervous temperament of man.
From The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Falkner
"No," said the Spain coach, with the blankest of looks on his face, after being asked if he had seen a better team than his at the European Championship.
From Fox News ● Jul. 5, 2021
“No,” said the Spain coach, with the blankest of looks on his face, after being asked if he had seen a better team than his at the European Championship.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
“She looked at me right in the eye with the blankest face, the blankest white pale face, a face that haunts me to this day, and says, ‘I love you,’ he recalled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2016
“It was a failed experiment. I was singing something about how expensive my hormones were, and I just got the blankest face from him.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2016
None of his “leads” had led anywhere, except, perhaps, down a blind alley toward the blankest of walls.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Joan spent the last few weeks of her pregancy at a mother and baby home - but she said she had "blanked out" the birth.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Four-goal Mikel Oyarzabal has blanked in the past two matches, so Luis de la Fuente's side have needed late intervention from substitute Mikel Merino to edge past both Portugal and Belgium in the knockout rounds.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Williams recorded five strikeouts, Angelina Gonzales hit a pair of home runs and the Cougars blanked Fullerton 7-0 to capture their sixth tournament title Saturday night at Peralta Park in Anaheim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026
He blanked out his mind and refused to think critically.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
Despite being blanked out for the rest of the lesson, I find myself approaching Mr. Bonner’s desk after class.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
Tudor came under heavy criticism, not just for replacing Antonin Kinsky after only 17 minutes following two mistakes in the 5-2 defeat, but for blanking the young keeper as he walked off.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2026
It was Minnesota’s first shutout since defeating Green Bay 16-0 on Dec. 23, 2017 and the first blanking of Las Vegas since its 24-0 loss to New Orleans on Oct.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
But Cubs right-hander Taillon was up to the task, blanking the Dodgers on two hits in five innings, striking out seven and walking two, and relievers Leiter and Thompson added three scoreless innings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2023
Chicago Cubs starter Justin Steele and six relievers combined on baseball’s first spring training no-hitter since 2017, blanking the Padres 4-0.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
A spectral fog enshrouded the island, blanking it from view, and we broke from rowing to watch it fade.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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