black box

Example Sentences

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Imagine opening a black box, only to find 5,000 more black boxes inside.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

Affectionately known as Kosmo, it's a towering black box that resembles a cross between a telephone exchange and the flight deck of an airliner.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 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

Obie would emerge with the black box at the moment before the drawings and the fight began.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier