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black

[blak] / blæk /
ADJECTIVE
lacking hue and brightness; light-absorbing.
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ADJECTIVE
enveloped in darkness
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With far more collision data now available, researchers could search at higher energies and increase their chances of seeing an exceptionally rare quantum black hole event if such events occur.

From Science Daily Sep. 23, 2026

Those comparisons showed that high energy particle collisions do not pose a black hole threat.

From Science Daily Sep. 23, 2026

The possibility of producing black holes at the LHC emerged roughly two decades ago.

From Science Daily Sep. 23, 2026

These hypothetical black holes would be extraordinarily small and short-lived.

From Science Daily Sep. 23, 2026

The sand is never poured down the hole; the black powder and fuse sit exposed at the bottom.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Fiel, vice president of brand and creative at the AI-native startup Newton, loves reinventions of utilitarian clothing, favoring functional pieces in deep greens and blacks.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

What 250 years means: To me, it means that we’re still here, we’re living, we’re breathing… The blacks and browns, you know, us sticking together, I feel like we accomplished a lot in 250 years.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

Seemingly to discredit the precedent, she argues the Court is too quick to dismiss the idea that the Bruen history test should include post-Civil War Southern laws disarming blacks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

Lindy Hop, the grandfather of all swing, emerged in 1920s New York during the Harlem Renaissance—an explosion of black artistic creativity following the Great Migration of blacks from the rural South to the urban North.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

By far the largest group of blacks was working class, a layer of society Drake sometimes referred to as the Respectables.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

The former journalist, who was documenting the wreckage during his descent, described the darkness of the Atlantic ocean as "blacker than you could ever imagine" with temperatures dropping to 2C.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2023

That way, the words you’re typing are bolder and blacker.

From New York Times Jan. 1, 2023

“Liberation Day” is different only in that the humor is a little blacker, the fears of our exploitation more intense.

From Washington Post Oct. 21, 2022

But now with more inclusive views of beauty, we celebrate Blackness of all shades including the classic Tupac homage “the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice.”

From Scientific American Jun. 17, 2022

Stars were shining above; but over the ground there crept a darkness blacker than the night.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight.

From Salon Sep. 7, 2026

Semple, who went to war with fellow artist Anish Kapoor over the latter’s exclusive rights to the world’s blackest of blacks, made his first red when he was 17.

From Seattle Times Feb. 7, 2024

His people have shimmering skins rendered in the blackest of tones; in some cases they camouflage themselves into shadow and night.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 7, 2023

Comparisons with other major tropical rivers show that the Ruki may even be the blackest large blackwater river on Earth -- it's certainly a lot darker than the famous Rio Negro in the Amazon.

From Science Daily Oct. 18, 2023

Another month later, drenched in rock dust and sweat, his section punched through the header into the softest, blackest, purest coal anyone had ever seen.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

The details were blacked out as the district attorney continues an investigation into the devastating fire.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

“But I’m so stoked that I got to go in. I blacked out, I don’t even know what I was thinking, I’m just glad I got to prove myself.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 2, 2026

This president’s name is no mystery to readers, but perhaps out of legal caution it always appears blacked out, as though the novel were a redacted intelligence document.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 2026

The sky blacked by the smoke from flaming vehicles was visible from Saunders's suite in a luxury hotel along Puerto Vallarta's main strip.

From Barron's Feb. 24, 2026

I tried to try to make a wisecrack about him mistaking me for a football, but blacked out before I could say it.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

This week Hurricane Lowell lashed Hawaii with damaging winds, heavy rainfall and powerful floods, blacking out power across most of one island.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

The Acton Town Council told the utilities commission in January that Edison was blacking out residents when dangerous conditions “do not exist.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 6, 2025

"I was blacking out and fainting," Ms Davies, a tattoo artist, said.

From BBC Mar. 17, 2024

“I think the reason that you redact records like this, records that are just silly to redact in the first place, it’s about normalizing the blacking out of records,” he said.

From Seattle Times Feb. 8, 2023

And then his right hand begins to burn, the pain sharp and searing, beginning at the scar around his finger and racing up his arm, blacking out every thought in his mind.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern




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