black
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Winchester Crown Court heard Abdela, who is Eritrean, had also attempted to disguise the fact he had been driving the black inflatable across the Channel when it was approached by immigration officers.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
"He was the one who brought a lot of the early artwork to the table and kind of created this black metal image."
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Nike Air Force Ones with classic colors like red, blue, and black had a particularly sluggish quarter, while some newer versions of the sneaker sold better, Dick’s executives said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The resident who found the child told KNBC-TV that she was taking out the trash around 10:30 p.m. when she saw a black cloth bag inside the dumpster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
And I was not alone much longer: into my solitary cell came a small, busy black ant.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Fiel, vice president of brand and creative at the AI-native startup Newton, loves reinventions of utilitarian clothing, favoring functional pieces in deep greens and blacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
So after he does his performance, he puts back on his blacks and he does his job, and I love that for him, to have that sense of responsibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
And they enjoy considerably more support among white and upper-income Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents than among blacks, Hispanics and lower-income voters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 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
Initially, blacks brought to this country were not all enslaved; many were treated as indentured servants.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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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
But now with more inclusive views of beauty, we celebrate Blackness of all shades including the classic Tupac homage “the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice.”
From Scientific American ● Jun. 17, 2022
This jacket was two other colors — black and blacker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2022
My skin seems blacker than the skin I started with.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
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In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
It is almost certainly the blackest black possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 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
Semple created the “pinkest pink” paint in 2016 as a reaction to artist Anish Kapoor purchasing and reserving the artistic rights to the Vantablack pigment, said to be the world’s blackest black.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
I took a gulp of the blackest tea I’d had in years and tried to think of Soraya, of the general and Khala Jamila, of the novel that needed finishing.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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In another video, the same woman debriefs the experience: “I just blacked out and spent nearly 600 euros at the French pharmacies. So, let’s go through everything I got.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
We couldn't see Ahmadzai because the car had blacked out windows.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
A cavalcade of blacked out Mercedes, flanked by police cars, rolled into the Fifa headquarters in Rabat, Morocco, earlier this week.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
With Pompeii’s sun blacked out, he stumbles around in the dark with a flashlight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
In a hospital with the windows blacked out.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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This week Hurricane Lowell lashed Hawaii with damaging winds, heavy rainfall and powerful floods, blacking out power across most of one island.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
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
Mr Choudhury said it was a miracle he survived his fall in 2021 after he asked two walkers to take his photograph before suddenly blacking out and plunging down the ravine.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2023
He said it was the closest he had come to blacking out onstage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
Briefly, she considered blacking them with her mother’s paint, but the effort seemed too great, and would fool no one.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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