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Definition of black eye
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Recent Examples on the Web Baseball was left with a black eye and many fans are left in anger: Screw you.
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Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, "Baseball is back! Here's the good and bad for the Detroit Tigers," 23 June 2020 As our examples show, each of these categories has a black eye for a reason.
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Ben Carlson, Fortune, "Why You Actually May Want to Buy ‘Bears’ in a Bull Market," 26 Dec. 2019 Montefusco had a black eye the next day and later spoke of his regret for the incident.
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Jon Schultz, SFChronicle.com, "SF Giants had 16 managers before Gabe Kapler. Here’s how each fared," 12 Nov. 2019 Her mother said her daughter had a black eye, some of her hair had been pulled out and her knee was bruised after falling into the school bus seat, Gouverneur police said.
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Amir Vera And Rob Frehse, CNN, "White students called a 10-year-old black girl the N-word as they beat her up on a bus, court documents say," 28 Sep. 2019 Assistant State’s Attorney Loukas Kalliantasis said the incident occurred Sept. 15 after employees discovered the 19-year-old had a black eye.
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George Houde, chicagotribune.com, "Worker at Little City facility for developmentally disabled is fired after being charged with aggravated battery against resident," 25 Sep. 2019 The colors grant us a timeline, for this is the tail end of a black eye; the fist likely smashed into the young woman’s face several days before the photo was taken.
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Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, "The True Face of the Trump Administration," 10 Feb. 2018 The victim had two black eyes, and her eyes were bloody.
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Bob Sandrick, cleveland, "Resident at OhioGuidestone in Berea beaten by other residents, hospitalized," 7 May 2020 Cosmetic users in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome created dramatic appearances by pairing skin whiteners containing lead or chalk with black eye makeup and red lip colourants.
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Lynn M. Thomas, Quartz Africa, "There’s a complex history of skin lighteners in Africa and beyond," 9 Mar. 2020
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