Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blanking
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The next morning, Federline called his lawyer Mark Kaplan to draft a legal letter demanding that Spears stop breastfeeding their children, and Federline left town to promote his record, ignoring her calls and messages.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
16 Oct. 2025 -
Signs of sass becoming a problem include growling or snapping, guarding objects, ignoring basic commands persistently, or biting and destroying items.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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Consistently disregarding your wellbeing.—
Melissa Willets,
Parents,
7 Oct. 2025
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Cook’s attorneys said the government was disregarding facts in her case.—
Samantha Delouya,
CNN Money,
25 Sep. 2025
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This isn’t the same as a parent bringing two young children home a tasty treat from a business trip and neglecting a third.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Denver Post,
16 Oct. 2025
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Funding tools and training, while neglecting the systemic change needed to drive real transformation.—
Heather Conklin,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2025
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Officers then conducted a welfare check and while her phone was there, both her car and wallet were missing.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
20 Oct. 2025
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On October 7th, at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s oversight hearing for Attorney General Pam Bondi, four Democratic senators—Sheldon Whitehouse, of Rhode Island; Mazie Hirono, of Hawaii; Alex Padilla, of California; and Peter Welch, of Vermont—also raised the matter of the missing fifty thousand.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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Simply rake fallen leaves from landscape beds into piles and mow over them on your lawn, chopping them into small pieces by passing over them several times.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Oct. 2025
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There were people that were out at the rideshare as bullets were passing over their head.—
Chantelle Lee,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
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The disappointment of losing to Watertown yet again, this time a 2-1 decision in early September that could’ve gone the other way.—
Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
20 Oct. 2025
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Already, animators are losing their jobs because it’s now done by AI, and soon, everything can be done perfectly by AI.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Blanking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blanking. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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