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
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
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
When all the players had dressed, they assembled in a small alcove in the back of the locker room where the blackboard hung.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
"How can you rehabilitate classrooms if you don't have cement? And above all, we need notebooks and books ... blackboards, the bare minimum," said Beigbeder.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 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
Downstairs were lecture halls and classrooms, all of them empty, with clean blackboards and freshly waxed floors.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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