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

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

"It may be like chalk on the blackboard, it may grate a little bit, but I am telling you something that is really quite honest," he said on Saturday.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 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

She quickly rounded up a half dozen other militant students and within the hour, every blackboard on campus had scrawled on it: “Malcolm to speak, 12 noon, ice-cream-shop.”

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson