blank slate

noun

: tabula rasa

Example Sentences

She viewed her students as blank slates, just waiting to be filled with knowledge.

Recent Examples on the Web The other eight justices are largely a blank slate. —

John Fritze, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2023 Ari Kelman documents how the mythology of the American continent as a blank slate, absent of Indians, arrived with the first settlers. —

Lizabeth Cohen, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2023 The ideal juror to sit in a criminal trial is someone who’s essentially a blank slate. —

Asia Simone Burns, ajc, 28 Oct. 2021 Legacy West, developed by Karahan Cos. and Columbus Realty, is the mother of all mixed-use developments, created from a blank slate on the northwest corner of the Dallas North Tollway and Legacy Drive in Plano. —

Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 3 July 2020 But there were also, of course, the newcomers — those who shared in Molander’s vision for what the blank slate could become. —

The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2022 Nowhere are the unintended consequences of these redistributions more harrowingly demonstrated than on the once-blank slate of Australia. —

Julie Zickefoose, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022 By comparison, the West Campus, which will be a part of the development proposal, is a blank slate. —

Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022 Like Tumblr, Notion is a blank slate, providing users with plenty of different templates to build and customize into what best suits their needs (and aesthetics). —

Makena Kelly, The Verge, 5 Jan. 2021 See More

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