blank slate

American  

noun

1. tabula rasa.

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Example Sentences

But it is also a person who becomes a repository for the dreams and aspirations of countless unknown other people, anonymous audiences who can transform the object of all that attention into something of a blank slate.

From Los Angeles Times

While his campaign has generated national attention, he is still a blank slate for much of America.

From BBC

Maps fused politics and geography as never before during the Paris Peace Conference that followed World War I. It was the closest that modern statesmen have come to having a blank slate to fill in with nations.

From The Wall Street Journal

In “The French Revolution: A Political History,” John Hardman reminds us that France already had functioning institutions, under a king whose authority had been long established, but cast them aside to re-create politics from a blank slate.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The only way to fix this game is to take a completely different approach, take a blank slate,” said Paul Kwan, managing director at General Catalyst, a large Substrate investor.

From The Wall Street Journal