blackness
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"What struck me wasn't necessarily just Earth, it was all the blackness around it. Earth was just this lifeboat hanging undisturbingly in the universe," said Koch.
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
“This was a period in English culture before blackness acquired its fatal association with slavery,” he writes, identifying a “certain strain of indifference to color” in the thinking of the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
All eyewitnesses like Samia* can say for certain is that the lights went out suddenly, plunging D Chowk, the square where they had gathered, into blackness.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024
It is blackness that refuses to accept subjugation, to give up.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2024
Ekon kept his strides even as they ventured deeper into blackness, turning and twisting through corridors until he was sure they were lost.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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