blackboard
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They always at least stay around the proverbial blackboard, as Friedman calls it, in case a player’s market doesn’t develop as expected.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
What I miss most is closing my eyes at night, then opening them and it’s morning, that total submersion, yesterday’s problems wiped away like algebraic equations on a junior-high blackboard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 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
One of the first buildings players enter - the local pub, of course - has a blackboard outside advertising today's special.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2024
“Well, let’s get started,” she says, not even seeing what we all see up there on the blackboard.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
Images of sheets and blackboards tallying the results have circulated on social media, fuelling victory claims among both Biya and Tchiroma's camps.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
I remember how excited and happy I was even though my school had no chairs, no blackboards, no books — the classroom in ruins from the war.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
It started, really, with those double pages that open the chapters that look like blackboards with white letters.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2022
Guests can tour classrooms where blackboards, walls and ceilings were warped by the water.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
They turned their desks into a trigonometric war room, poring over equations, scrawling ideas on blackboards, evaluating their work, erasing it, starting over.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
