chalkboard
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chalkboards
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Walsh, the hospitality owner, said he was surprised a few days ago when he saw that someone—using a chalkboard where locals trade messages—had wished SpaceX employees luck running a marathon on the island.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
And every time, Claude returned to its imaginary chalkboard and began scribbling away again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 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
The little professor stands at the chalkboard drawing a wiring schematic for a simple Morse-code practice circuit.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
"I gave up my job as a barista because of my son's mental health problems, and this is something that just happened… I was already doing chalkboards and portraits."
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
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
Not real ones, but cutout paper snowflakes, bordering all the chalkboards.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
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