black box

Example Sentences

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As well as the black box, Motability has introduced recommendations that drivers take a break every hour and aim not to do more than six journeys a day.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

But her probe would be a black box that she could slow-walk indefinitely.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

Instead, it stages work in unlikely spaces: Masonic lodges, American Legions, women’s centers, but never traditional black box theaters.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

The DIP lenders’ lawyer, Scott Greenberg, a partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, said in a November hearing that his clients were lending “into a black box which seems to not have a bottom.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

This black box of genetics was pried open, almost accidentally, by an unlikely scientist working on an unlikely organism.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee