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
He pointed to the blackboard and said, “Under eligibility.”
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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
The Michigan artist’s paintings can resemble palimpsests, reused documents that reveal multiple levels of text or imagery, or explicitly evoke partly erased blackboards.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 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
The labs have vast ceilings and blackboards across the front.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
