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.
  • On a mound of dirt, a black box seemed like it had been left behind.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Probes don't solve the black box problem on their own—they're just one research tool.
    — Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • And the brain has remained this black box for a long period of time.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Cellular modems are something of a black box.
    — Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Secondaries are an elephant-sized black box.
    — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Which makes Khusid’s point about opening the black box all the more important.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • After a moment, the summary will appear at the top of your screen in a black box.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 25 Apr. 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
  • Ryan Coombs, 42, has been a fan and patron of small and black box theater for years.
    — Greg Mellen, Oc Register, 18 Mar. 2026
  • But as far as the division’s career staff were concerned, her office was a black box.
    — Quinta Jurecic, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Roache said authorities were able to retrieve the black boxes from the train.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The new space includes a 250-seat black box theater, a street level bar, and a gallery.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • There is a $3 trillion dollar black box at the center of the economy.
    — Wailin Wong, NPR, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Can there be any reconciliation between game and frame, the black box and the white cube?
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 30 June 2023
  • But in many ways, the enormous tranche of files remains a black box due to its scale and lack of organization.
    — Elliott Ramos, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • But the black boxes are not the only tools investigators will have.
    — Gregory Wallace, CNN, 17 Mar. 2024
  • What Pavlick means, on the most basic level, is that large language models are black boxes.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Yet for many families, where colleges are spending the additional cash is a black box.
    — Andrew Mollica, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The event was held in a black box theater on Santa Monica Blvd.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Now obviously, the vendors don't want people to look into the black boxes.
    — Caitlin Harrington, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2024
  • And so Hughes' organization was thought to be the perfect black box.
    — Kathryn Fink, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Drug pricing is typically hidden in a black box, Purvis explains.
    — Lauren Larson, Men's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Jeff’s team penalized it in our ranking, however, because its financials have been a black box.
    — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 10 Apr. 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
  • 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

black box

2 of 2 adjective
  • The code is a black box, as far as you are concerned.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Is a black box required on all airplanes?
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Of course, the truck logged the whole incident on its black box.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 24 Sep. 2022
  • When an aircraft fails, the black box is there to help explain why.
    — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021
  • But if Wall Street is a black box, the blockchain is an open book.
    — WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
  • City Hall should not operate like a black box.
    — Adam Miller, Daily News, 23 May 2026
  • Charcoal gray, or even black, gives a small space a black box look, where there's no end in sight.
    — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The process of figuring out your daily rhythm can seem like a black box.
    — Emily P.g. Erickson, Wired, 6 May 2021
  • Workers found the last body and the plane's black box on Tuesday.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 31 May 2022
  • Evidence appeared in a black box on the screen that was too small to read.
    — Sonia Moghe, CNN, 26 Sep. 2021
  • For the most part, though, the future seems to be another black box.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
  • And an airplane’s black box is not black at all — it is painted orange.
    — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The black box warning, though, may stop women from using them.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But because of the way the algorithms work, one, there's sort of a black box.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Twitter, which declines to speak with reporters, is a bit of a black box these days.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Sadly, the answers to many of those questions are, for most of us, still a black box.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • If the site goes down, that information goes back into a black box.
    — Erin Somers, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Pedestrian crashes also lack the force to wake up a car’s black box.
    — John H. Tucker, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Berry-Kravis ventures deeply into that huge black box every day.
    — Edie Kasten, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Signals thought to be from the plane's black box turned out to be from other sources, and no wreckage was found.
    — CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The technology function no longer feels like a black box.
    — Shaun Fisher, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Users were storing their funds in a black box and had no oversight into how they were being stored.
    — Roomy Khan, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The irony is that fundraising isn’t actually a black box.
    — Holden Bruce, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • One of two black box recorders, believed to be the cockpit voice recorder, was found Wednesday.
    — NBC News, 24 Mar. 2022
  • China, meanwhile, represents a bit of a black box.
    — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 24 June 2026
  • The effort to open up the black box is called explainable AI.
    — Forest Agostinelli, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2021

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