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Recent Examples of black-and-white
The track arrives with a striking black-and-white visual directed by Salomon Lighhelm.
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Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 26 Feb. 2025
Other factors are less black-and-white, like a filmmakers’ ability to deliver a movie on time, the quality of the project’s sales team and how much equity capital has already been raised.
—Matt Craig, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
The front also features a spotlight, two microphones, and two infrared LEDs for black-and-white night vision.
—PCMAG, 26 Feb. 2025
The black-and-white snap shows the couple kissing over a meal, and the post was accompanied by a sweet message.
—Stephanie Petit, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
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Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 26 Feb. 2025
Other factors are less black-and-white, like a filmmakers’ ability to deliver a movie on time, the quality of the project’s sales team and how much equity capital has already been raised.
—Matt Craig, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
The front also features a spotlight, two microphones, and two infrared LEDs for black-and-white night vision.
—PCMAG, 26 Feb. 2025
The black-and-white snap shows the couple kissing over a meal, and the post was accompanied by a sweet message.
—Stephanie Petit, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for black-and-white
Recent Examples of Synonyms for black-and-white
Adjective
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Zelenskyy had been pressing the White House for explicit security guarantees, to no avail.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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Being explicit and deliberate in communicating timely health advice is critical, particularly during a deadly disease outbreak.—
Omer Awan,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Someone might have come in and cut firewood at some point, but it’s always been woods and never was clear-cut.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
4 Mar. 2025
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No fighter in the sport is as clear-cut a king of his division.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Key Ingredients: Shea butter, avocado oil, orange peel wax Finish: Available in luminous or natural finishes Shades: 12 How to apply: Ilia keeps matters simple with its multi-stick: swipe, blend, and go.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
27 Feb. 2025
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But in Ravel’s solo works, which across decades of composition contain both the evocative broad strokes of impressionism and the luminous specificity of pointillism, his approach can have mixed results.—
Joshua Barone,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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None of these cases, for instance, is likely to result in the full restoration of the bright-line rules established with the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, rules based in part on the lessons of our battles against authoritarian monarchy in the seventeenth century.—
Andrew Cockburn,
Harper's Magazine,
20 Aug. 2024
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Baron’s argument is, at first, the least problematic; the killing of his cousin is a bright-line injustice.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
27 Feb. 2024
Adjective
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Although the translations into English are awkward, especially across the differences in poetic rhyme scheme and structure, the sentiment is unmistakable.—
Eli Amdur,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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Charismatic slacker Raj and uptight striver Mir aren’t just foils for each other; their mutual love is unmistakable, which gives weight to the looming prospect that the stress of salvaging Baba’s empire could tear them apart.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Some of Frost’s poems have the lilting quality of lullabies; others seem to deliver their morals in unambiguous terms.—
Maggie Doherty,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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This consent must be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous.—
Merag Shahzad,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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My son didn’t want the standard plain vanilla suspended ceiling.—
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
1 Mar. 2025
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With modest effort and our standard test parts, our system looks great all lit up (even with the plain, unlit fans on our 240mm CPU cooler).—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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By sharing rights, the Bond franchise has arrived at a very different type of storytelling, one that fragments the story and multiplies the James Bonds to be experienced across distinct media.—
Colin Burnett,
The Conversation,
7 Mar. 2025
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Therefore, a total lunar eclipse has five distinct phases.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Black-and-white.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/black-and-white. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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