blackboard
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blackboards
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Origin of blackboard
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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
"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
Even though it might be the same observation about the world, about what's on the other side of a blackboard, that feels different coming from the voice of a child.
From Salon ● May 22, 2024
A few moments later, Spinks walked to the blackboard, his eyes studying a 3 X 5 card filled with statistics.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Supporters on both sides are claiming victory based on images circulating on social media of blackboards and papers tallying the results.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 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
We do group murals on the blackboards or on large rolls of brown paper.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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