black
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The decayed plant turns black and is caught in a sieve, allowing the seeds to fall to the bottom of the catching tub.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
His hair, previously dyed jet black, had gone entirely silver and his thick mustache had been replaced by a scruffy beard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Finish the tarts with lemon zest, chopped chives, additional pecorino and another turn of black pepper.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
“It is sort of a black box in terms of why something is authorized and why something isn’t,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Clasping his little black paws, his one good eye glowing brightly from beneath the shadow of his cloak, Clare said, “Mr. Frabwick, I’ll just be out with it. You’re dead.”
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
What 250 years means: To me, it means that we’re still here, we’re living, we’re breathing… The blacks and browns, you know, us sticking together, I feel like we accomplished a lot in 250 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
The straightforward intent of Title VII was to outlaw racial discrimination in the labor force, where blacks were being kept out of jobs and denied promotions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
The plaintiffs claimed Section 2 required a second such district on the rationale that blacks make up 30% of Louisiana’s voting-age population.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
In the penultimate frame of the match, O'Sullivan looked on course for a maximum 147 break, potting nine reds and eight blacks, before opting to go for a blue in a break of 113.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
A backlash against blacks was clearly in force, but no consensus had yet been reached regarding what racial and social order would ultimately emerge from these turbulent times.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
The former journalist, who was documenting the wreckage during his descent, described the darkness of the Atlantic ocean as "blacker than you could ever imagine" with temperatures dropping to 2C.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2023
“Liberation Day” is different only in that the humor is a little blacker, the fears of our exploitation more intense.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2022
“It’s big, and it’s blacker than coal,” Jewitt said.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 14, 2022
‘Happiness’ Black comedies don’t come much blacker than Todd Solondz’s unrated, controversial 1998 tale of suburbia and its discontents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2022
She was tall and even blacker than my father.
From "Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman
It is almost certainly the blackest black possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2024
Semple, who went to war with fellow artist Anish Kapoor over the latter’s exclusive rights to the world’s blackest of blacks, made his first red when he was 17.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
Comparisons with other major tropical rivers show that the Ruki may even be the blackest large blackwater river on Earth -- it's certainly a lot darker than the famous Rio Negro in the Amazon.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2023
When winds were bearable, we sought bliss, sat, admired the aurora australis as an escape from our blackest abyss.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2023
The animal’s fur was long and thick, each symmetrical marking the blackest black and the whitest white.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Standing on third base with the Birmingham crowd roaring, Ruiz said, “Honestly, I didn’t know what was going on. I blacked out.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
Clinton swimming with Ghislaine Maxwell in one undated photo; reclining in the hot tub next to the person whose face has been blacked out.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
The sky blacked by the smoke from flaming vehicles was visible from Saunders's suite in a luxury hotel along Puerto Vallarta's main strip.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
“I don’t know what happened,” Manley said, describing the improv session, “but I’m telling you, I blacked out and bee-bopped and scatted all over that room, like George Costanza would say.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
This hasn’t been blacked out, even though we aren’t supposed to be reading.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
"On Saturday I was blacking in and out, I didn't know what to do," she said.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
Over the weekend she said she continued bleeding and suffering a lot of pain, even blacking out on her way to the bathroom at night.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
Yet in recent months, the utility has heard a chorus of complaints from communities including Moorpark and Malibu that it is blacking out customers even when the winds are calm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
Those moderators have publicly protested earlier Reddit decisions, most recently blacking out much of the site for days when Reddit announced plans to start charging many third-party apps for access to its content.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
One may apply blacking as one will—for it is not in the application, but in the buffing, that the art of blacking lies.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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