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Sweetly, and with little hope, they make a small community of people who understand each other and the desert landscape that others see as a blank space on the map.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

The canvases we see behind him are blank, or turned away from the viewer, a testament to the uneasiness he felt presenting himself and his work to the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

His chameleon-like qualities have led some to call Bardella an "incredible blank canvas" upon which RN voters can project their ideal candidate.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Today, while some retailers still accept checks, an attempt to pay with anything other than cash or card is likely to result in a blank stare from a Gen Z cashier.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

Old Timothy’s face was as blank as a mask.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

It is the lack of detail and potentially very narrow window to fill in the blanks that are causing jitters for some in the party.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

“There’s a lot of filling in the blanks when your families are from the same part of the country. They’re down-to-earth, churchgoing families. It felt easy. We’re cut from the same cloth.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

"We're filling the blanks in with this museum," Quezon told AFP on a tour ahead of its opening.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

The American president is about to appear when the broadcast abruptly cuts off and the room blanks out in a flash of white.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

“I want to fill in the blanks in your life before they store your files.”

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

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

Never had the superintendent been more vigilant; and never had his honest face looked blanker.

From Simon by Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer)

"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

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

The week before, he blanked the Padres but only made it through five innings on 88 pitches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

The Italians blanked the sixth, and claimed two in the seventh to open up a healthy advantage again.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

He blanked out his mind and refused to think critically.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025

Daisy went quiet for a long time, her eyes blanked by concentration.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

When a team scores, the hammer passes to the other team for the next end, which can lead to rinks tactically blanking an end rather than just taking one point so they retain the hammer.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

He pushed his pitch count to 65 in his next start for Oklahoma City on April 6, blanking Albuquerque on two hits, striking out six and walking none over 4 ⅔ innings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

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

Temporarily blanking on names and misplacing items is normal.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023

So I was nearly hysterical with pain when I told my parents and sister about blanking out, and what I’d been doing in the canyon after midnight.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith