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black

[blak] / blæk /
ADJECTIVE
lacking hue and brightness; light-absorbing.
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ADJECTIVE
enveloped in darkness
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Waterman Ski Resort, known for its steep slopes and black diamond runs, was listed for sale on Wednesday for $3,275,000.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

“It is a little bit of a black box,” Tang said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

Mr. McGurn notes that black voters, 14% of Michigan’s population, backed the establishment candidate over Mr. El-Sayed in the primary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Verified footage first posted on social media on 10 October showed the crew running across the deck and putting on lifejackets as a large cloud of black smoke rose over the ship.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

It was a Jew in his early thirties in the typical broad-brimmed black hat and long black coat.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

"It could have been anyone. He opened fire on blacks, Arabs. He knew the majority of the population here in Trappes is Muslim," a local shopkeeper of North African origin told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

For blacks, it decreased 43%, which was driven “exclusively” by a 47% reduction in black violent crime, according to the study.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

“On a number of issues that would primarily impact conditions in low-income communities, grassroots blacks have registered opinions that are sharply at odds with the positions taken by the civil rights cadres.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

In Chicago, under the law, most places were open to both blacks and whites: children attended school together, and adults rode streetcars together.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

“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

‘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

The press corps that landed in Ferguson after a black 18-year-old, Michael Brown Jr., was fatally shot by a white police officer, was blacker than most big American newsrooms.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2020

Overhead, a huge storm was brewing, with clouds blacker than I’d ever seen over the city.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

“The contrast between that and the moon is so extreme — the moon becomes the blackest thing you’ve ever seen. ... It’s just like a hole punched in the universe.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 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

She sorted through them carefully, and selected the oldest, biggest, blackest, rustiest key.They went into the drawing room.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

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

This president’s name is no mystery to readers, but perhaps out of legal caution it always appears blacked out, as though the novel were a redacted intelligence document.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

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

The other divers immediately went into the water again and they found Mahdhee had blacked out.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

An ambulance careened into the alley and raced toward us, its headlights blacked out so that only pinpricks of light shone through.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

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

"On Saturday I was blacking in and out, I didn't know what to do," she said.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026

He said it was the closest he had come to blacking out onstage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2023

“I think the reason that you redact records like this, records that are just silly to redact in the first place, it’s about normalizing the blacking out of records,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2023

In the midst of painting the blacking on his worn shoes he looked sideways up at her.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck


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