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• n  a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
• n  a blank gap or missing part
• n  a piece of material ready to be made into something
• n  a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
• v  keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
• s  (of a surface) not written or printed on
  blank pages
  fill in the blank spaces
• s  void of expression
  a blank stare
• s  not charged with a bullet
  a blank cartridge

• Benito Mussolini pointed a shiny black pistol at the League of Nations last week, fired a thunderous blank.
• British editions of The Economist ran an otherwise blank page with a box explaining that a review of Spycatcher was appearing in all 170 countries where the magazine has .
• Many blank ballots were expected to be cast by such Catholics as consider the Premier too innovating a New Dealer.

• space
• lacuna
• dummy
• blank shell
• clean
• white
• vacuous

News & Articles

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• Blank Joins WKNO-FM As News Director
  Christopher Blank has joined WKNO-FM, the Mid-South affiliate of National Public Radio, as news director. Blank, who has produced feature stories for ...
  June 18, 2013 - The Memphis Daily News
• Ask Rick Blank your strategic planning, patent, and product marketing questions
  Join the Hive and Rick Blank of SCORE Boston today from at 1 p.m. to ask and answer all your questions on start-up patents, strategic planning for your company, and how to market your product.        
  June 18, 2013 - Boston Globe
• Bruins blank Blackhawks to edge closer to title
  Bruins blank Blackhawks to edge closer to title        
  June 18, 2013 - Hartford Courant

Quotes

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• Ryan Crocker in Reuters
  We do expect results, as do the Iraqi people, and our support is not a blank check,Crocker said.
• Scott McClellan in International Herald Tribune
  I was reluctant to do it,McClellan told the Democratic-led panel. "I got on the phone with Scooter Libby and asked him point-blank, 'Were you involved in this in any way?' And he assured me in unequivocal terms that he was not."
• Howard Stern in CBS News
  I am not married. It's a nice feeling that we get along great. We're very happy and I don't want to (blank) it up,said Stern, who is finally free of government decency laws on Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.