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blank wall

American  

noun

  1. an impassable barricade or obstacle; a situation in which further progress is impossible.

    Attempts to get information by questioning the neighbors ran into a blank wall.


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But for anyone sitting in the upper rows there is nothing to see but a blank wall descending from the ceiling and stopping about halfway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2025

Delta Air Lines and United Airlines have been sued by passengers who claim they were charged extra for a window seat but found themselves sitting next to a blank wall.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025

In the exhibition, four large flanking panels of saints are staggered against a blue background, flanking a blank wall where the missing central panel would have been.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2024

Pushed further, it produced images of a tidy desktop in a home office and then a white cup of coffee set against a blank wall.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

A blank wall would have received more compliments.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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