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blackboard

[blak-bawrd, -bohrd] / ˈblækˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /
NOUN
chalkboard
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Looming behind the bluesman is a blackboard, on which a genealogy of the blues has been chalk-drawn in an orderly hand.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

Every game was the football equivalent of fingernails down a blackboard.

From BBC Oct. 5, 2025

The host walked me to the seating at the back of the restaurant, and we passed a huge blackboard that read, “Leave a message for Mr. G or Lady G.”

From Slate Nov. 2, 2024

Even though it might be the same observation about the world, about what's on the other side of a blackboard, that feels different coming from the voice of a child.

From Salon May 22, 2024

“Your Honor, is there a blackboard available to the court?” she asked.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Supporters on both sides are claiming victory based on images circulating on social media of blackboards and papers tallying the results.

From Barron's Oct. 14, 2025

The Michigan artist’s paintings can resemble palimpsests, reused documents that reveal multiple levels of text or imagery, or explicitly evoke partly erased blackboards.

From Washington Post Oct. 28, 2022

At the 4.16 Memorial Classroom, a museum dedicated to the students, the victims’ classrooms are re-created with desks, blackboards and other furniture from the school.

From Seattle Times Jun. 8, 2022

It started, really, with those double pages that open the chapters that look like blackboards with white letters.

From Salon Mar. 9, 2022

After he swept, he placed the chairs back in their place while I cleaned the blackboards.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez



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