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blank

[blangk] / blæŋk /






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The model then calculated the probability of snakebites occurring in specific locations, even where official health records were completely blank.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

The proportion of spoiled and blank votes also decreased.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

White is often associated with absence or emptiness—we speak of “a blank page.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The blank, black planes, devoid of facial features, create space for viewers to imagine themselves in their place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

She pulled out a brand-new tiny notebook with blank pages—lots of them.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

I understand why the many chefs who mucked up the “Crystal Lake” cauldron, starting with Bryan Fuller, were compelled to fill in the blanks of Pamela’s origin story.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

You will be spending limited time with him in person, which means you’ll be filling in a lot of blanks yourself.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

But it is not hard to imagine those blanks being filled in as a new generation steps up.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Fishery inspectors relied on local pearling leaders and divers to fill in cartographic blanks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

I signed the form and watched as he filled in the blanks.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

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

If I had told him that part of that business was the laying out of a tennis-court he might have looked blanker.

From The Magic Egg and Other Stories by Frank Richard Stockton

"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

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

On their home ice and snow, Norway went from getting blanked to winning 10 golds and the medal count.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

I could tell he was trying to see if maybe I’d blanked out and not told anyone about it.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

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

And that form carried over into this week’s wild-card series, with the Padres blanking the Braves 4-0 in Game 1 before advancing via a victory in Game 2 on Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024

The Kraken are 6-0-2 in Daccord’s past eight starts and he posted his second shutout in the last three weeks after blanking Florida on Dec. 12.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 1, 2024

“Obviously, we’ve got a couple of guys out,” Eberle said after the Kraken were shut out Saturday night by a usually sieve-like Ottawa Senators team not used to blanking opponents.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 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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