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"I was totally blank," Mingma G recalls in a low voice.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

One day, I saw my older sister carefully burning the edges of a blank notebook.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

“We were ecstatic. And then a year passed. And then two years passed. I think they wanted people to have a blank slate in going into ‘The Drop.’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

And when official information leaves a blank space, folklore is very happy to fill it.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

He couldn’t help staring up at the windows now, but they were blank and dark and empty.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The reporting since then has filled in the blanks.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026

Keenan, a gym owner and fitness fanatic from Rossett, Wrexham, has very little memory of the day of his collapse and only knows what happened because others have filled in the blanks.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

His x’s were still there, the blanks were still blank.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

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

Another silence seemed blanker than those which had preceded it, and finally her voice came—it was blank, too.

From The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

"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

Neither was enough to win, though it ensured the Dodgers weren’t blanked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 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

Later, when I came back together Julia told me that I had blanked out for about eighty-four-thousand miles—seventy minutes or so.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

Despite blanking in Chelsea's 4-0 win last gameweek, you just can't ignore Palmer in what should be another comfortable victory at Stamford Bridge.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025

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

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

Later I would feel bad about such things, but when I came back from blanking out, I acted so horribly.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith