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  • adjective of the black color of soot

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Examples

  • A toner cartridge is color (or the soot-black lack thereof, and by extension, Manichean dualism), disposability, the Gillette model of razor marketing, the democratization of print publishing.

    Lateral Thinking for Writers | The Long Write 2010

  • A toner cartridge is color (or the soot-black lack thereof, and by extension, Manichean dualism), disposability, the Gillette model of razor marketing, the democratization of print publishing.

    2010 July 05 | The Long Write 2010

  • A toner cartridge is color (or the soot-black lack thereof, and by extension, Manichean dualism), disposability, the Gillette model of razor marketing, the democratization of print publishing.

    2010 July | The Long Write 2010

  • A toner cartridge is color (or the soot-black lack thereof, and by extension, Manichean dualism), disposability, the Gillette model of razor marketing, the democratization of print publishing.

    Lateral Thinking for Writers | The Long Write 2010

  • This time, the asylum's been extended into an entire walled city in the heart of Gotham, proffering soot-black skyscrapers from which you can swoop and glide.

    This week's new games 2011

  • Yarmohammad delivered us to the soot-black yawn of the Salang Tunnel, and drove back to Kabul.

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  • Yarmohammad delivered us to the soot-black yawn of the Salang Tunnel, and drove back to Kabul.

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  • Niffer was larger than Leo – taller, meatier – with soot-black hair pulled into a dozen little pigtails.

    Books: “Nothing Right” 2009

  • Which doesn't quite explain the soot-black black-face stuff though... but might explain a bit more the golden earrings, Aunt Jemima style.

    Christmas in July: Going Dutch Jen 2009

  • By the time they held the first competitions in 1907, the klopse were mixing minstrel style -- bright costumes, soot-black faces, offensive lyrics -- with their own culture.

    Marching In Blackface 2007

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