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Demonstrating the technique in a video on social media, he clutches a blank piece of paper behind the colander he is holding up.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

A political novice, Darline is a blank slate and has been notoriously press-shy since taking office.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

"The screen went blank, flashed several times and the phone appeared to restart," according to CBP officers.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

She was running for a rare open congressional seat in San Francisco and, though well known in political circles as a prodigious Democratic fundraiser and high-level activist, Pelosi was a blank slate to many voters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

Like something he would have dreamed up from beneath his bed, with blank white eyes and gray skin and rows of razor-sharp teeth.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Yet many companies have been waiting for the Treasury Department and IRS to fill in the blanks on the rules for contributions from employers and employees.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

But it is not hard to imagine those blanks being filled in as a new generation steps up.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Fishery inspectors relied on local pearling leaders and divers to fill in cartographic blanks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The reporting since then has filled in the blanks.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026

“The tools and blanks are from your dad, but the book was my idea.”

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

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

DeChambeau blanked the media all week despite being in contention and in the spotlight.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

He blanked out his mind and refused to think critically.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025

With Tua Tagovailoa benched and Quinn Ewers starting, you have to give the edge to Joe Burrow, even after the Bengals were blanked by Baltimore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025

Suspicions were also raised when planning documents for the embassy had parts of the blueprints blanked out when they were submitted to Tower Hamlets council, marked "redacted for security reasons".

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

The plane was so far away that at times the strong glare of the sun blanked it from sight.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

Mouat and Dodds did not falter, though, blanking that final end to all but seal a semi-final spot.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

And that form carried over into this week’s wild-card series, with the Padres blanking the Braves 4-0 in Game 1 before advancing via a victory in Game 2 on Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024

The Kraken are 6-0-2 in Daccord’s past eight starts and he posted his second shutout in the last three weeks after blanking Florida on Dec. 12.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 1, 2024

Temporarily blanking on names and misplacing items is normal.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023

In class, too, I just started basically blanking out every period, every day.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick