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At first, his mind went blank as he tried to make sense of the problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
"The screen went blank, flashed several times and the phone appeared to restart," according to CBP officers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 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
Officials searched Ying’s hotel in Brentwood and found blank manuscripts and paperwork similar to the books that Ying had checked out from the university, according to the release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
He dreamed that Fa was alive again; but instead of a face, he had a blank white stone.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
"Every stage is crucial," explains master cymbalsmith Hasan Seker, a burly 56-year-old who co-founded Bosphorus Cymbals in 1996 and is sweating after hauling glowing blanks into and out of the furnace.
From Barron's ● 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
It isn’t rare for a series to fill in the blanks between seasons or extend a series post-cancellation via novels or comics or radio shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
Because usually, when you forget how something went, you turn to someone and go, Remember that time we...And they remember it, and they help you fill in the blanks.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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
He learned some of it then, when he saw the girl's face deaden to a blanker white and the flame of a hungry hope leap into her eyes.
From Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories by Gibbon, Perceval
"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
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
The Italians blanked the sixth, and claimed two in the seventh to open up a healthy advantage again.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
They got none, as the end was blanked.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
He blanked out his mind and refused to think critically.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
So he worked from the chair, not rising, and every now and then he rested his head in his hands and closed his eyes and blanked the brain, and so rested.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
Norco advanced to the finals by blanking Orange Lutheran 2-0.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026
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
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
“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
“It’s hard to say. Maybe I was mistaken about them being there in my living room. I can’t account for anything I see when I start blanking out,” I said.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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