blacked out

past tense of black out
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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 car windows are blacked out. Eli Sharabi, Time, 1 Oct. 2025 Prior to the dustups with NBCU and TelevisaUnivision, YouTube TV had nearly blacked out Paramount and Fox networks, reaching deals with both media companies after tensions spilled into public view. Dade Hayes, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025 Even with nearly a quarter of the country blacked out due to affiliate preemptions — protests and temper tantrums by station groups and owners, basically — Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025 The surge in online viewership is partly because Kimmel’s show has been blacked out by Nexstar and Sinclair. Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025 At one point in the set, during a characteristically epic, multipart number, the music turned moody and the stage blacked out. James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025 The book is filled with lewd pictures, with many faces blacked out, and messages both handwritten and typed from well-wishers for Epstein’s 50th birthday, USA TODAY reported. George Petras, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025 That information was supposed to be redacted, or blacked out, in the public complaint but was visible in some formats. Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 30 Aug. 2025 The name of that juvenile and what exactly prompted police to be summoned to the three-bedroom home on Crane Creek Lane were blacked out in the report. Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blacked out
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  • FellinAI‘s first feature, The Sweet Idleness, imagines a world in which machines have eradicated 99% of jobs, leaving humans to a life of leisure.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
  • That misconception must be eradicated from our society.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 2 Oct. 2025
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  • As for her glam, Strogoff wore her bright blonde hair in loose mermaid waves and darkened her eyebrows to a near black for a bold contrast.
    Starr Bowenbank, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Their views on the economy's trajectory have darkened, with only 25 percent saying in September that things were getting better, down from 28 percent in August.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
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  • The Press Trust of India news agency reported that at least 30 people fainted while Vijay was speaking, per Reuters.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Some devotees fainted at the sight of him.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
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  • The Mariners erased an 8-1 Toronto lead in Game 2 to complete a sweep, celebrating the comeback by locking arms around the pitcher’s mound.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • What’s being erased are actual historical facts.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Sep. 2025
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  • The Jokake Inn closed in the late 1970s and was demolished, except for its Pueblo revival-style belfry towers, which were incorporated into The Phoenician.
    Douglas C. Towne, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • As the circle closed in, the pig faked right and broke left, making a mad dash for the nearby woods (Jonathan Taylor, watch your back).
    Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • During the workout, some new members passed out, while others were forced to complete the activities, the station reported.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Krista was on the phone with a dispatcher when her mom began to have a seizure in the car and briefly passed out.
    Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
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  • Complicating matters for all the island’s inhabitants, in January 1793 the French revolutionaries, who had abolished the monarchy to create a republic, executed King Louis XVI and then declared war on Great Britain and Spain.
    Marlene L. Daut September 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Two years later, the monarchy was abolished, and Nepal, the world’s sole Hindu kingdom, proclaimed itself a secular republic.
    Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 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
  • 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 8 Oct. 2025.

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