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were blanks

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A cartridge that is designed to simulate the noise and smoke of real gunfire without actually firing a projectile.

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Her parents were blanks.

But otherwise Josie's people were blanks.

All her relatives were blanks, though many were addicts, and she had a cousin who identified as an anarchist.

The soldiers said in court that at first, they thought the gunshots were blanks or part of a training exercise.

The troops fired volley after volley at the crowd on the Avenue of Eternal Peace; at first I thought these were blanks, but then the night echoed with screams and people began to crumple.

Unsurprisingly, a woman who did not flinch when a gunman fired six shots at her while she was Trooping the Color on horseback in 1981 (they were blanks), and who has weathered the scandals and calamities generated by her children -- Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward and their spouses -- did not lose her cool.

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Some animals were blank.

Which were blanked?

Three ballots were blank.

He said they were blank.

But the screens were blank.

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