BLANKS Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of blank

as in forms

a piece of paper with information written or to be written on it handed him an employment blank to fill out

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as in vacancies

empty space a blank on the form for the patient's insurance policy number

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blanks

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verb

present tense third-person singular of blank

as in passes over

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Recent Examples of blanks

Noun

Her brother, Tunji, fills in the British blanks for her, but life in Lagos was a time of playing on swings and watching her brother kick a ball with his friends. — Riann Phillip, Vogue, 15 July 2026 Speaking with Goldman Sachs’s Raj Mahajan at the firm’s Apex Symposium on June 2 — audio Fortune has exclusive, embargoed access to — Griffin filled in the blanks. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 July 2026 Couric then handed the virtual mic to Molner, who filled in some of his wife’s blanks. — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 9 July 2026 Students could then be assigned a diagram of the water cycle with missing labels; filling in the blanks on the diagram offers them a hands-on activity to reinforce the information in the quiz. — Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 7 July 2026 Opportunities to fill in the blanks Our research has also found that researchers may have options to work around government failures to collect and report this more detailed data. — Mark Axelrod, The Conversation, 30 June 2026 As shown below though, those opportunities were not exactly gilt-edged as Turkey fired blanks in their first two matches. — Mark Carey, New York Times, 28 June 2026 Retrofitted rat traps that fired Hollywood blanks meant to deafen and deter. — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026 Someone doesn’t have to be ignoring you, shading you or leaving something out, but your mind will go ahead and fill in the blanks. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for blanks

Noun

The remaining funds will then be distributed among other class members who have submitted valid forms.

— Brian Sloan,Dan Avery, CNBC, 15 July 2026
Instead of painting a broad picture that included all leading forms of content distribution — movie theaters, broadcast and cable television as well as streaming platforms — the states zeroed in on three distinct slices.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026

Definition of forms

Noun

Importantly, the new crystals are designed to ensure that some iron atoms are missing, a property known as iron vacancies.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 19 July 2026
The state Constitution empowers the New York City mayor to appoint judges to the city’s Criminal and Family Courts for 10-year terms, and to fill interim vacancies on Civil Court.

— Christian Browne, New York Daily News, 18 July 2026

Definition of vacancies

Noun

Available documents indicate the warrant was related to the traffic case involving his driver’s license, although the extradition file does not specify its exact origin.

— Susana Erazo, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
The New York Times reported Thursday that the documents released by the White House did not back up his claims.

— Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of documents

Noun

If these voids aren't filled with credible information, employees will interpret events themselves, often leading to rumors that may or may not be true.

— Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
Researchers found that the solar wind experiments created tiny voids within the mineral structure.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026

Definition of voids

Verb

But that framing ignores a few factors, as was pointed out to Deadline by the leader of one suitor committed to safeguarding the company’s unique, cinephile-forward culture.

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 14 July 2026
Why would someone hand over their best idea to a process that usually ignores it?

— Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

Definition of ignores

Noun

Five people entered the business and one threatened an employee with a handgun while the others stole boxes containing vaping devices, cartridges and dozens of packs of rolling papers, police said.

— Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 20 July 2026
Wind, too, considers a quest for box and papers to be misguided.

— Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 20 July 2026

Definition of papers

Noun

Companies like Trace Finance capitalize on structural gaps, offering zero-cost FX to secure profitable trade finance and credit relationships, mirroring traditional banks' strategies in high-interest markets like Brazil.

— Aaron Stanley, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Simultaneously rendering the past less remote while relishing its radical foreignness, Beard presses readers to grapple with alien ideas, reckon with gaps in their knowledge, and confront complexity.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 July 2026

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