Example Sentences
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This president’s name is no mystery to readers, but perhaps out of legal caution it always appears blacked out, as though the novel were a redacted intelligence document.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
Clinton swimming with Ghislaine Maxwell in one undated photo; reclining in the hot tub next to the person whose face has been blacked out.
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026
The sky blacked by the smoke from flaming vehicles was visible from Saunders's suite in a luxury hotel along Puerto Vallarta's main strip.
From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026
She said that she had trouble breathing and felt like she could have blacked out.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025
“A baby,” I said, and then I blacked out.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
