How to Use black box in a Sentence

black box

1 of 2 noun
  • The black boxes were recovered from the crash site and provided useful information about the cause of the crash.
  • The remains of the plane and its black box recorders were found on the ocean floor two years later.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 18 Apr. 2023
  • On a mound of dirt, a black box seemed like it had been left behind.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The machine that turned one into the other was a black box.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
  • And the brain has remained this black box for a long period of time.
    IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Probes don't solve the black box problem on their own—they're just one research tool.
    Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • After a moment, the summary will appear at the top of your screen in a black box.
    Jay Peters, The Verge, 25 Apr. 2023
  • In the first photo, the couple sat on a stage surrounded by bright pink lights with a black box at the forefront of the picture.
    Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2023
  • To McCarthy, the TikTok algorithm is still very much a black box.
    Jasmine Li, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Bailey shows in the video the packaging the ashtray arrived in: a black box with the Dolce & Gabbana Casa logo in white.
    Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Although this other stuff, the black boxes and things like that, that would add some serious cost to the buses.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Can there be any reconciliation between game and frame, the black box and the white cube?
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 30 June 2023
  • Talk about going from commanding a black box theater to hitting marks on a film set.
    Margy Rochlin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Before a pit stop, the tires reside in ovens—large black boxes that can be heated up to around 175 degrees Fahrenheit.
    Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 12 June 2023
  • Whoop Coach feels like the next step up from black box algorithms to something a bit more interactive.
    Victoria Song, The Verge, 26 Sep. 2023
  • But the black boxes are not the only tools investigators will have.
    Gregory Wallace, CNN, 17 Mar. 2024
  • And so Hughes' organization was thought to be the perfect black box.
    Kathryn Fink, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
  • No one knows exactly what happens within this black box.
    Simon Duan, Scientific American, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Transparency is not meant to be a black box or a locked box; it is meant to be an unlocked, crystal-clear glass box that plainly reveals its contents.
    Aaron Burciaga, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Scott performed among a post-apocalyptic tower of black boxes, and closed out the show by smashing folding chairs against the ground as flames shot up around him.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Since Seid handed the money over in 2021, part of the pile has been funneled into black boxes like Donors Trust, a mega-donor money-washing machine.
    Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
  • Now obviously, the vendors don't want people to look into the black boxes.
    Caitlin Harrington, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Strangely, besides taking Fabio's Porsche, that black box was one of the only things stolen from the house, say investigators.
    Michelle Miller, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Lowell noted in his letter that while the faces of other people in the photographs were blocked with black boxes, Hunter Biden's face was not censored.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 22 July 2023
  • Yet for many families, where colleges are spending the additional cash is a black box.
    Andrew Mollica, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Among the fears held by Carbon Market Watch and other advocates is that those transactions will turn into a black box.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Misty’s face is superimposed in the background, watching as Elijah Wood’s Walter dances around in a top hat with sketches of a needle, axe and the black box floating in the foreground to the tune.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 June 2023
  • Nobody could say exactly how the A.I. had pulled this off—a large language model is basically a black box.
    Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Then there is the black box problem—even the developers don't quite know how their products use training data to make decisions.
    The Editors, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Navels are tattooed with a black box representing the separation of a baby boy from his mother at birth.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
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black box

2 of 2 adjective
  • But if Wall Street is a black box, the blockchain is an open book.
    WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
  • There’s a steel black box near the entrance of the Derrick.
    Liza Weisstuch, Washington Post, 8 July 2022
  • As for what else lurks in the black box, only Google knows.
    Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Of course, the truck logged the whole incident on its black box.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Workers found the last body and the plane's black box on Tuesday.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 31 May 2022
  • Where is the black box data from Tiger Woods' crashed car?
    Alex Connor, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The mystery math of whether someone is a draw or not … to me, it’s a black box.
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2022
  • But because of the way the algorithms work, one, there's sort of a black box.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2022
  • There was no black box on board, according to the NTSB.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2021
  • My goal was to crack open the black box at the heart of physics so that the world would become a little less weird.
    John Horgan, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2021
  • That’s odd enough, but then the black box is missing – and one of the plane’s passengers.
    Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2022
  • For the most part, though, the future seems to be another black box.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
  • When an aircraft fails, the black box is there to help explain why.
    Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The first black box, the cockpit voice recorder, was found on March 23, while the flight data recorder was found March 27.
    Gio Benitez, ABC News, 17 May 2022
  • The effort to open up the black box is called explainable AI.
    Forest Agostinelli, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Outside the window, a large black box attached to a lift was used to block out the March sun.
    Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2021
  • What happens in the republics is something of a black box.
    New York Times, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Sadly, the answers to many of those questions are, for most of us, still a black box.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Evidence appeared in a black box on the screen that was too small to read.
    Sonia Moghe, CNN, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The little black box was in the rear of a regular marked black and white police car.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2022
  • And a black box from the Chinese plane that crashed is in bad shape, but it's been recovered.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Meanwhile, even with its star power, Haven couldn’t break the black box that is U.S. health care.
    Erika Fry, Fortune, 1 June 2021
  • How drug prices are set in the US is a mysterious black box.
    WIRED, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The process of figuring out your daily rhythm can seem like a black box.
    Emily P.g. Erickson, Wired, 6 May 2021
  • The staircase also descends to a 284-seat theater and a black box gallery for film and video.
    Leslie Camhi, Vogue, 20 May 2021
  • One of two black box recorders, believed to be the cockpit voice recorder, was found Wednesday.
    NBC News, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Twitter, which declines to speak with reporters, is a bit of a black box these days.
    Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Tracing your steps back through Arc Zero and past the hot air balloon is a small black box of a place.
    April Wallace, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Among the small-sized black box braids are a few cobalt blue plaits and faux locs that add the right amount of color to this protective style.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The handle is made of polished Bakelite and solid brass, and the knife comes in a sleek matte black box.
    Abigail Abesamis Demarest, Forbes, 15 June 2021

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