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But, when Ohlerking, who is blind, logged on to the prescribed website with the help of his friend Jennifer Stadnik, they were met with a nonfunctioning blank white screen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
"Now, I don't feel anything. It's like I'm not even human. Since you died, I'm just blank," he wrote in a letter to Roxanne, his late sister, published by Players' Tribune in June.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
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
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
She looked up, her blank eyes meeting Clara’s.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Most cymbals are made of a copper and tin alloy that is melted into molten bronze which is poured into moulds and cooled into disc-shaped blanks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
The reporting since then has filled in the blanks.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 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
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
When he faltered, his parents filled in the blanks.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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
Miss Joliffe said, and then the blank look on her face grew blanker, and she took out her handkerchief.
From The Nebuly Coat by Falkner, John Meade
"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
The week before, he blanked the Padres but only made it through five innings on 88 pitches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
Leo Darrelatour crossed to prevent Catalans from being blanked but there was still time for James McDonnell to add an eighth try for Leeds.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 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
They got none, as the end was blanked.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
The plane was so far away that at times the strong glare of the sun blanked it from sight.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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
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
Temporarily blanking on names and misplacing items is normal.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023
I think hard, only to start blanking on any and all moments of genuine friendship between me and Autumn.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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