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black box

NOUN
flight data recorder
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Its brand-new headquarters, a converted warehouse in an industrial park south of downtown, includes a 200-seat black box theater, where last week the company offered the premiere of its first-ever commissioned opera, Jorge Sosa’s “Ofrenda.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The approach also differs from some "black box" machine learning systems because it is supervised.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

Fashion heist films watched in a black box theater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

It was a black box with a point on it that turned in a circle.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel


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