chalkboard
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“Cookies!” exulted the chalkboard menu, the sole dessert offered during the entire retreat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
It’s still going to be Professor Barrett at the chalkboard explaining the difference between a substantive canon and a rule of statutory construction.
From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2026
She said it is “like nails on a chalkboard to hear people constantly referring to the Palisades as a war zone.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
Some reviews on Apple Podcasts have complain it has too many adverts, with one saying that listening to the hosts reading out adverts sounds like "nails on a chalkboard".
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
It looked like something you’d see on a really cool chalkboard at a coffee shop.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
But even mathematicians were astonished when OpenAI announced that one of its models resolved a puzzle known as the unit distance problem without the help of any humans scribbling a bunch of equations on chalkboards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
Lockers and chalkboards still line the walls and the surrounding streets are dotted with boarded-up businesses and crumbling houses, legacies of decades of under-investment.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2023
It allows children aged 6-14 to assemble structures with wooden slats, explore homemade “ornithopters” and try writing in reverse on mounted chalkboards.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
Professors linger in empty classrooms, trying to solve complex equations on chalkboards.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2023
Then I washed all the chalkboards again since they were streaky.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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