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Prized vinyl records and vintage audio equipment are nothing more than a blank mush, speckled with ashes and broken pieces.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
A political novice, Darline is a blank slate and has been notoriously press-shy since taking office.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Savita believes the exam was manipulated, alleging some candidates left answers blank so they could be filled in later.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
So instead of reading it, I grab a pen and open to the book’s blank inside back cover.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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
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
For an instant he felt almost safe, and then a blanker despair than before fell upon him.
From For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
"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
When Roberts pulled Yamamoto in the sixth, he had blanked his opponents with 10 strikeouts, four hits and two walks.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 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
The Italians blanked the sixth, and claimed two in the seventh to open up a healthy advantage again.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
So, after our game against Moreno Valley, I blanked out while standing under a flow of steaming water in the boys’ locker-room showers.
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
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
It was Minnesota’s first shutout since defeating the Packers 16-0 on Dec. 23, 2017 and the first blanking of Las Vegas since its 24-0 loss to New Orleans on Oct.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 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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