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Fizzy, sugary drinks were sweet, festive and a nutritional black hole.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

“No wonder rumors & disinformation spread here like black mold.”

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

In 2018, Cambridge said it needed help to attract more talented black students, and unexpectedly the rapper Stormzy answered the call by setting up a scholarship to encourage students to apply.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Because the black hole was not actively consuming matter, it would ordinarily have remained invisible.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 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

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

Seemingly to discredit the precedent, she argues the Court is too quick to dismiss the idea that the Bruen history test should include post-Civil War Southern laws disarming blacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

At the time, one Nigerian man told BBC Pidgin: "It is not okay because we are blacks, we are brothers... everybody comes here just to survive."

From BBC ● May 3, 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

Also in 1915, blacks played a decisive role in electing the mayor, Republican William Thompson.

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

“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

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

The hair on her arms rose as she watched the flame of her candle bend forward, pointing to a darkness that seemed blacker than all the rest.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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

“Soon I’ll go for a stroll / in my blue silk dress, / go into town / and buy myself a plum, / the blackest from the bush,” one of her speakers proclaims.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023

California settlers’ relations with Native American tribes constitute one of the blackest marks on the state’s history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2022

And he recalled Eilonwy’s words in his blackest despair, the girl’s voice telling him that nothing could take away what he had done.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

“But I’m so stoked that I got to go in. I blacked out, I don’t even know what I was thinking, I’m just glad I got to prove myself.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

A third undated snap shows the former US president reclining in a hot tub beside someone whose face is blacked out to protect their identity.

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

Sure enough, the man who played the Consigliere in The Godfather pulled up in a car with blacked out windows and shared a few minutes with me.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

Typical JP: His face was blacked, which was a good cover for the massive purple bruise around his eye, and he was dressed in combat fatigues with a camouflaged bucket hat that shaded his eyes.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith

“It was barely off the bat before I started blacking out and trying to get to the field. I almost fell over the rail,” Kopech said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2024

"I was blacking out and fainting," Ms Davies, a tattoo artist, said.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2024

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

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