1
as in eradicated
to destroy all traces of
had spent most of her adulthood trying to black out memories of a wretched childhood
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as in darkened
to grow dark
with the delivery of the knockout punch, the screen blacks out, and in the next scene the boxer wakes up in the hospital
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as in fainted
to lose consciousness
blacked out after hitting her head on the beam
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Recent Examples of blacked out
The predawn assault included strikes on key military facilities, while US cyber teams blacked out the lights in Caracas.
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J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 4 Jan. 2026
The Chiefs played at home that day against the Browns, and the game was blacked out in Kansas City because there wasn’t a sell-out at Arrowhead Stadium.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 3 Jan. 2026
The initial release of documents also showed several photos of former President Bill Clinton with women whose faces were blacked out.
—Arkansas Online, 1 Jan. 2026
Entire pages have been blacked out in some instances, with flimsy justification from the DOJ.
—Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
The initial release of documents also showed several photos of former President Bill Clinton with women whose faces were blacked out.
—Stephen Groves, Twin Cities, 31 Dec. 2025
Portions of that exchange remain redacted, including a statement by a bailiff that is entirely blacked out, leaving unclear what specific security concerns were discussed behind closed doors.
—Michael Ruiz , Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 29 Dec. 2025
Head to toe, all important bits are blacked out, with some nice contrast offered by the few bare metal parts.
—New Atlas, 28 Dec. 2025
Many of the documents contained significant redactions, including whole pages of records that were blacked out.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 4 Jan. 2026
The Chiefs played at home that day against the Browns, and the game was blacked out in Kansas City because there wasn’t a sell-out at Arrowhead Stadium.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 3 Jan. 2026
The initial release of documents also showed several photos of former President Bill Clinton with women whose faces were blacked out.
—Arkansas Online, 1 Jan. 2026
Entire pages have been blacked out in some instances, with flimsy justification from the DOJ.
—Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
The initial release of documents also showed several photos of former President Bill Clinton with women whose faces were blacked out.
—Stephen Groves, Twin Cities, 31 Dec. 2025
Portions of that exchange remain redacted, including a statement by a bailiff that is entirely blacked out, leaving unclear what specific security concerns were discussed behind closed doors.
—Michael Ruiz , Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 29 Dec. 2025
Head to toe, all important bits are blacked out, with some nice contrast offered by the few bare metal parts.
—New Atlas, 28 Dec. 2025
Many of the documents contained significant redactions, including whole pages of records that were blacked out.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blacked out
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Spider mites create webs and can be eradicated with miticide spray.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
7 Jan. 2026
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Just last week, a professor who taught at Harvard for 40 years slammed the school for its ideological homogeneity after finishing his last semester, saying that graduate programs were denying White male applicants on racial grounds and that Western civilization courses were being eradicated.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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Place wings, skin side down, on unlit side of grill; cover and grill, undisturbed, until darkened in color and cooked through, about 20 minutes.—
Sabrina Weiss,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Political action committees have circulated push polls falsely suggesting Mamdani intends to make halal mandatory, and attack ads have darkened and elongated his beard to evoke the visual coding of menace.—
Faisal Kutty,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 2025
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When the man fainted, the event came to an abrupt halt.—
Kyler Alvord,
PEOPLE,
31 Dec. 2025
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The cold open took place in the Oval Office and parodied a recent White House event about cutting the price of weight loss drugs, during which a man fainted behind the president.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
10 Nov. 2025
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Gary Simmons’ Rush, housed at the Cookie Factory in Denver, is an immersive meditation on movement, memory, and what gets erased in the recording of American history.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
9 Jan. 2026
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Photograph by Stuart Palley I’m writing on the eve of the anniversary of the fires that flattened my Pacific Palisades neighborhood, all but erased the community of Altadena, and left unhealed scars across Los Angeles.—
Dana Goodyear,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
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But a quagmire of launch delays, changes to mission plans and other quirks of timing left the orbiters without a ride when the last Mars transfer window closed in late 2024.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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By Bay City News All lanes of Interstate Highway 80 were reopened in Fairfield on Saturday morning after being closed in the eastbound direction, according to the California Highway Patrol.—
Bay City News Service,
Mercury News,
8 Nov. 2025
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The barbecue joint’s staff passed out free samples to the large crowd who were lined up through the end of the parking lot, several businesses down.—
Alexa Stone,
Kansas City Star,
7 Nov. 2025
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But then Wulan passed out, and a huddle of family and friends rapidly grew around her, with more and more concerned guests coming to Wulan's side in each passing moment.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
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Quotas related to race and national origin were abolished.—
Anna Storti,
The Conversation,
8 Jan. 2026
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In 2020, the Florida Supreme Court also abolished proportionality review, which for 50 years allowed judges to probe the circumstances of death cases to protect defendants from the random imposition of the death penalty.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
29 Dec. 2025
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The Buckeyes benefited from a pair of penalties, including a face mask call on Colin Simmons that wiped out an incomplete pass on third-and-4.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Aug. 2025
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The Buckeyes benefitted from a pair of penalties, including a face-mask call on Colin Simmons that wiped out an incomplete pass on third-and-4.—
Joe Reedy,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Blacked out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blacked%20out. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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