blackness
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"I could hardly breathe. I was hot, I was sweating, my trousers were burning. Total blackness, I've never seen blackness like it."
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
"What struck me wasn't necessarily just Earth, it was all the blackness around it. Earth was just this lifeboat hanging undisturbingly in the universe," said Koch.
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
“This was a period in English culture before blackness acquired its fatal association with slavery,” he writes, identifying a “certain strain of indifference to color” in the thinking of the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
“You turn off the lights and they just tumble into the blackness of space,” he told me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
You slither out onto its snuggly warm blackness, and pretty soon you get so cozy and content lying there that you fall asleep, stretched out and snoring, even.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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