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Botelho said Lula will attempt to rally those who cast blank votes, and the 33 million who abstained -- representing 21 percent of registered voters.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Take the “Gen Z stare,” that supposedly blank look younger service workers give customers expecting a burst of social acknowledgment.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
As Chelsey excavates the details of Rika’s biography, she explores the blank spaces and lingering questions surrounding her own obscured origins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
From the dining table below, where a young Charley often helped her grandmother fill blank planes with delicate dots, Caland could look up and see how far her line had taken her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Now that Michael had the opportunity to rattle off questions, his mind went blank.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
You will be spending limited time with him in person, which means you’ll be filling in a lot of blanks yourself.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Fishery inspectors relied on local pearling leaders and divers to fill in cartographic blanks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The reporting since then has filled in the blanks.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
It is the lack of detail and potentially very narrow window to fill in the blanks that are causing jitters for some in the party.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Something that might begin to fill in the blanks of the family tree I’m supposed to be creating.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
HBO the canvas is wider and blanker, and Sinclair says that the previous episodes put them under pressure too.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2016
Eilis’s innocence couldn’t be purer or blanker if she had been imported straight from “Little Red Riding Hood,” and the simplicity of the good—and the bad—folk back home in Enniscorthy couldn’t be more apparent.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2015
On that first day, I glimpsed Ayano in the intensive care room, wrapped in a red and blue blanker, struggling to breathe, his eyes tipped back into his skull.
From Time Magazine Archive
The men hovering around us all had that murky quality to their expressions—blank smiles, blanker eyes.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
Vernon took the paper and read it slowly, his face growing blanker and more blank as he proceeded.
From Affairs of State by Burton Egbert Stevenson
"No," said the Spain coach, with the blankest of looks on his face, after being asked if he had seen a better team than his at the European Championship.
From Fox News ● Jul. 5, 2021
“No,” said the Spain coach, with the blankest of looks on his face, after being asked if he had seen a better team than his at the European Championship.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
“She looked at me right in the eye with the blankest face, the blankest white pale face, a face that haunts me to this day, and says, ‘I love you,’ he recalled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2016
“It was a failed experiment. I was singing something about how expensive my hormones were, and I just got the blankest face from him.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2016
None of his “leads” had led anywhere, except, perhaps, down a blind alley toward the blankest of walls.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
DeChambeau blanked the media all week despite being in contention and in the spotlight.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Neither was enough to win, though it ensured the Dodgers weren’t blanked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
The Italians blanked the sixth, and claimed two in the seventh to open up a healthy advantage again.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
He blanked out his mind and refused to think critically.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
That was something that frequently happened when I blanked out.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
When a team scores, the hammer passes to the other team for the next end, which can lead to rinks tactically blanking an end rather than just taking one point so they retain the hammer.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
And that form carried over into this week’s wild-card series, with the Padres blanking the Braves 4-0 in Game 1 before advancing via a victory in Game 2 on Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024
It was Minnesota’s first shutout since defeating Green Bay 16-0 on Dec. 23, 2017 and the first blanking of Las Vegas since its 24-0 loss to New Orleans on Oct.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
It was Minnesota’s first shutout since defeating the Packers 16-0 on Dec. 23, 2017 and the first blanking of Las Vegas since its 24-0 loss to New Orleans on Oct.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2023
As was always the case after blanking out, I could not decide which way I was supposed to go.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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