blackboard
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Looming behind the bluesman is a blackboard, on which a genealogy of the blues has been chalk-drawn in an orderly hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
"It may be like chalk on the blackboard, it may grate a little bit, but I am telling you something that is really quite honest," he said on Saturday.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025
The host walked me to the seating at the back of the restaurant, and we passed a huge blackboard that read, “Leave a message for Mr. G or Lady G.”
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2024
Even though it might be the same observation about the world, about what's on the other side of a blackboard, that feels different coming from the voice of a child.
From Salon ● May 22, 2024
“Then let’s get to work,” she says, heading for the blackboard.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
"How can you rehabilitate classrooms if you don't have cement? And above all, we need notebooks and books ... blackboards, the bare minimum," said Beigbeder.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2025
The group has collected photographs of about 200 messages left as graffiti or written on blackboards in schools.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
At the 4.16 Memorial Classroom, a museum dedicated to the students, the victims’ classrooms are re-created with desks, blackboards and other furniture from the school.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
It started, really, with those double pages that open the chapters that look like blackboards with white letters.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2022
Downstairs were lecture halls and classrooms, all of them empty, with clean blackboards and freshly waxed floors.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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