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blank

[blangk] / blæŋk /






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Former United midfielder Carrick, who took over in January initially as caretaker manager, seemed to blank his players at full-time before heading over to the United fans.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

The blank, black planes, devoid of facial features, create space for viewers to imagine themselves in their place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Botelho said Lula will attempt to rally those who cast blank votes, and the 33 million who abstained -- representing 21 percent of registered voters.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

I’d take a sheet, draw a picture on the blank side and then turn it over to read the dialogue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Now that Michael had the opportunity to rattle off questions, his mind went blank.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

You will be spending limited time with him in person, which means you’ll be filling in a lot of blanks yourself.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

Sitting in the shade, Oleksandr was looking over his goods -- paintings, electronic components, toys and old phones -- laid out on wooden blanks on the tarmac.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

No fog lights grace the front lower corners; the molded blanks in the lower grille look like waffle irons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

The reporting since then has filled in the blanks.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026

One way to sum up the new scholarship is to say that it has begun, at last, to fill in one of the biggest blanks in history: the Western Hemisphere before 1492.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

HBO the canvas is wider and blanker, and Sinclair says that the previous episodes put them under pressure too.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2016

Eilis’s innocence couldn’t be purer or blanker if she had been imported straight from “Little Red Riding Hood,” and the simplicity of the good—and the bad—folk back home in Enniscorthy couldn’t be more apparent.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2015

On that first day, I glimpsed Ayano in the intensive care room, wrapped in a red and blue blanker, struggling to breathe, his eyes tipped back into his skull.

From Time Magazine Archive

The men hovering around us all had that murky quality to their expressions—blank smiles, blanker eyes.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

It seemed emptier, blanker still, now that even the dead body of the dog had gone.

From To-morrow? by Victoria Cross

"No," said the Spain coach, with the blankest of looks on his face, after being asked if he had seen a better team than his at the European Championship.

From Fox News ● Jul. 5, 2021

“No,” said the Spain coach, with the blankest of looks on his face, after being asked if he had seen a better team than his at the European Championship.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2021

“She looked at me right in the eye with the blankest face, the blankest white pale face, a face that haunts me to this day, and says, ‘I love you,’ he recalled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2016

“It was a failed experiment. I was singing something about how expensive my hormones were, and I just got the blankest face from him.”

From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2016

None of his “leads” had led anywhere, except, perhaps, down a blind alley toward the blankest of walls.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

Neither was enough to win, though it ensured the Dodgers weren’t blanked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

The week before, he blanked the Padres but only made it through five innings on 88 pitches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

Leo Darrelatour crossed to prevent Catalans from being blanked but there was still time for James McDonnell to add an eighth try for Leeds.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

On their home ice and snow, Norway went from getting blanked to winning 10 golds and the medal count.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

So he worked from the chair, not rising, and every now and then he rested his head in his hands and closed his eyes and blanked the brain, and so rested.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

When a team scores, the hammer passes to the other team for the next end, which can lead to rinks tactically blanking an end rather than just taking one point so they retain the hammer.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

It was Minnesota’s first shutout since defeating Green Bay 16-0 on Dec. 23, 2017 and the first blanking of Las Vegas since its 24-0 loss to New Orleans on Oct.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

But Cubs right-hander Taillon was up to the task, blanking the Dodgers on two hits in five innings, striking out seven and walking two, and relievers Leiter and Thompson added three scoreless innings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2023

Chicago Cubs starter Justin Steele and six relievers combined on baseball’s first spring training no-hitter since 2017, blanking the Padres 4-0.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023

So I was nearly hysterical with pain when I told my parents and sister about blanking out, and what I’d been doing in the canyon after midnight.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith


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