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as in eradicates
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 darkens
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 faints
to lose consciousness
blacked out after hitting her head on the beam
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Recent Examples of blacks out
But beyond noting that the case was closed, the report blacks out all the details describing the event.
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Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2025
Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blacks out
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Bonacini wants gold — a sterilizing cure that eradicates every trace of the virus and cannot return.—
Jia H. Jung,
Mercury News,
1 Sep. 2025
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Yet this uncertainty comes as the global outlook darkens — both in economic and geopolitical terms.—
William Pesek,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Blocking the sunlight also darkens his living spaces.—
Roxana Popescu,
Mercury News,
11 Aug. 2025
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This pledge erases dissenting Israeli voices, legitimizes falsehoods, and shields Hamas from blame.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
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But how often can the Pats bank on Drake Maye enjoying the best start of his career, while Antonio Gibson erases a Dolphins punt return touchdown with his own return touchdown on the next play?—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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In January 1964, law enforcement closes in.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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Data-provider With Intelligence logged US $209 billion of final closes in 2024, 5 percent above 2023, with mega-funds swallowing two-thirds of the haul.—
Zennon Kapron,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Danny passes out, but luckily doesn’t die.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
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Two bad passes out of 86 is a good day on the ball by any estimation, but the reality of this position in Chelsea’s system is that any time possession is lost carries grave risk.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
18 Aug. 2025
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Instead, this measure abolishes them.—
Jon Coupal,
Oc Register,
31 Aug. 2025
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The Iranian parliament has just approved a law that abolishes prison sentences for those who had to leave Iran illegally.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
11 Aug. 2025
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Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist and a former Google executive, has warned in the past that there is a 10% to 20% chance that AI wipes out humans.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
13 Aug. 2025
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That timeline could shrink if a massive fraud wipes out public confidence in the Internet.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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Multiply that across millions of users and intellectual diversity collapses.—
Eric Markowitz,
Big Think,
23 Sep. 2025
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And after the Republic collapses, the empire continues to exist for another 500 years.—
Nikki McCann Ramirez,
Rolling Stone,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Blacks out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blacks%20out. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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