blackboard
noun
black·board
ˈblak-ˌbȯrd 
: a hard smooth usually dark surface used especially in a classroom for writing or drawing on with chalk
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The teacher always made her kneel on chickpeas behind the blackboard.
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The yellow menu mimics those of Paris models and there is a nightly blackboard menu of specials.
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From there, Krenn’s colleagues mostly went back to the blackboard.
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File photo of a blackboard in a schoolhouse at the Carillon Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
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Literary Hub, 2 July 2025
The yellow menu mimics those of Paris models and there is a nightly blackboard menu of specials.
—John Mariani, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
From there, Krenn’s colleagues mostly went back to the blackboard.
—Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
File photo of a blackboard in a schoolhouse at the Carillon Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for blackboard
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“Blackboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blackboard. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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blackboard
noun
black·board
ˈblak-ˌbō(ə)rd
-ˌbȯ(ə)rd
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