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Police use black armored personnel carriers to patrol downtown Kashgar, while heavily armed officers are stationed outside the gates of the ancient part of the city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Dench also discussed meeting American actor Sidney Poitier, who became the first black man to win the Academy Award for best actor in 1964.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Gadi Eisenkot, the man who could unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, almost always dresses in plain black, speaks halting English and, reflecting the military culture that shapes him, responds in interviews in bullet-point lists.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Case in point: Micron’s stock was choppy in early Wednesday trade, rising as much as 3.6% before briefly turning negative and then inching back into the black.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Nollie’s blue sweater beneath Betsie’s dress was black with newsprint.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

“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

A backlash against blacks was clearly in force, but no consensus had yet been reached regarding what racial and social order would ultimately emerge from these turbulent times.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

“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

If a thousand giant octopuses had squirted ink at the same time, at the bottom of the deepest, most sunless ocean trench, it could not have been blacker.

From "The House of Hades" 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

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

Faced with the dingy, familiar courtyard, all the eager hopes of the day vanished beneath a torrent of blackest fear.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

The sign has gone, though the shape of the lettering can still be made out; the windows are blacked out and the doors boarded up.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Brovdi’s team drove me to the meeting points in a vehicle with the windows blacked out to obscure any glimpse of the route to secret locations somewhere in southeastern Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

We couldn't see Ahmadzai because the car had blacked out windows.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

“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

“I blacked it out of my mind because of the sadness and hurting,” he told me.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

The high surf in California comes as another storm system, Hurricane Lowell, lashed Hawaii with damaging winds, heavy rainfall and powerful floods, blacking out power across most of one island.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

“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

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

And then his right hand begins to burn, the pain sharp and searing, beginning at the scar around his finger and racing up his arm, blacking out every thought in his mind.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern