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Airline lost and found can be a black hole, as anyone who has left something in a seat back pocket, overhead bin, gate or anywhere at the airport really, knows too well.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

When you gaze into the black box, the black box calculates how best to gaze back.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

The victim: a teensy black and white kitten named Suki.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Lillia, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, was last seen on Saturday at the Trafford Centre shopping mall wearing a small black backpack.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Clare froze, his black paws stilled over her torso.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

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

“Jefferson on Race” collects an array of his writings about blacks and Native Americans, ranging from state papers to plantation records.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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

Some Chicagoans who had found slavery repugnant now shuddered at the prospect of free blacks surging in to take up residence in their city.

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

The former journalist, who was documenting the wreckage during his descent, described the darkness of the Atlantic ocean as "blacker than you could ever imagine" with temperatures dropping to 2C.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2023

“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

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

They sailed quickly away from the islet as the sky got blacker and blacker.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

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

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

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

Semple created the “pinkest pink” paint in 2016 as a reaction to artist Anish Kapoor purchasing and reserving the artistic rights to the Vantablack pigment, said to be the world’s blackest black.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 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

Then my smile freezes, because just behind him, Maddy Montgomery is giving us the blackest scowl I ever saw.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

The details were blacked out as the district attorney continues an investigation into the devastating fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 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 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

The apartment windows are uniformly dark; whether unlit or blacked out, he cannot tell.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

“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

In a twist on condo conversions, some people even remodeled the upper floors of their homes — blacking out windows and drilling ventilation holes — to make them habitable for swiftlets.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 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

Barely made it to shore before blacking out.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin