blank slate
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Besides, every creative needs a blank slate to create upon, and for a designer, an all-white apartment is the perfect place to start. — Kelsey Kloss, ELLE Decor, "Designer Karim Rashid Just Listed His Colorful, Modern Apartment For $4 Million," 23 Feb. 2017 The draw marked the fifth blank slate of the season for Ranjitsingh and gave Louisville City a 7-2-2 record. — The Courier Journal, The Courier-Journal, "Ranjitsingh perfect in goal as Louisville City plays to scoreless draw," 9 June 2018 Marsha Norman’s script, like Alice Walker’s novel, begins with Celie as a nearly blank slate. — Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, "A deeper ‘Purple’ than we’ve seen reaches Charlotte via Broadway Lights," 12 July 2018 Now, after his stunning primary loss Tuesday, the next generation of Democratic leaders is a blank slate. . — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, "The Finance 202: Kennedy retirement isn't a game changer for corporate America," 28 June 2018 Without that, Sweetbitter is just a show about some people who work in a restaurant, and Tess is just a blank slate of a girl watching them do things. — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "The delectable possibility and bland reality of Sweetbitter," 25 May 2018 Eclectic Full Contact Theatre presents David Lindsay-Abaire's nails-on-a-chalkboard farce about a woman whose amnesia makes each day a completely blank slate. — Dmitry Samarov, Chicago Reader, "The farce Fuddy Meers makes a critic long for amnesia," 22 June 2018 The specific Constitutional clauses are something of a blank slate having rarely been tested in court in more than 200 years. — Washington Post, "Obscure no more, the emoluments clause is back again in a federal court," 11 June 2018 Development on Starlink started about five years ago at Ubisoft’s Toronto studio, when Matthew Rose, now a producer on the game, was given a blank slate to come up with a new concept. — Andrew Webster, The Verge, "Starlink is like a kid-friendly No Man’s Sky with awesome spaceship toys," 11 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'blank slate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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