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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
In the 2022 election, 29% of women in the lower-income group either stayed home or cast blank or null ballots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Nine years ago, she included a Gratitude Jar on her annual Oprah’s Favorite Things list, which included nothing but 365 blank cards and vibes.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
From the dining table below, where a young Charley often helped her grandmother fill blank planes with delicate dots, Caland could look up and see how far her line had taken her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
His mind strangely blank, Jack pulled out his sword and pointed it straight at one of the wolf’s glowing red eyes.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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
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
It is the lack of detail and potentially very narrow window to fill in the blanks that are causing jitters for some in the party.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
I’ve heard so much about their lives together before me, but sometimes I wonder about what they chose not to tell me and it’s those blanks that I like to fill in.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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
The girl's face became blanker; the lines stiffened.
From The Shield of Silence by George Loughridge
"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
Four-goal Mikel Oyarzabal has blanked in the past two matches, so Luis de la Fuente's side have needed late intervention from substitute Mikel Merino to edge past both Portugal and Belgium in the knockout rounds.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Neither was enough to win, though it ensured the Dodgers weren’t blanked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 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
The Italians blanked the sixth, and claimed two in the seventh to open up a healthy advantage again.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
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
He pushed his pitch count to 65 in his next start for Oklahoma City on April 6, blanking Albuquerque on two hits, striking out six and walking none over 4 ⅔ innings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 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
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
After I get mad about my blanking out, I get depressed.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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