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black sites

black sites is the plural of black site.

Meaning of black site

Noun

black site (plural black sites)

  1. A location at which an unacknowledged black operation or black project is conducted.
    • Noting the dearth of serious research on black sites, Paglen endeavored to produce a book that would reveal “how the United States has become dependent on spaces created through secrecy, spaces that lie outside the rule of law, outside the Constitution, outside the democratic ideal of equal rights...2020, Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad, quoting Trevor Paglen, Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 136

Questions about black sites

What is black sites the plural of?
Black sites is the plural of black site.

Words near black sites in the dictionary

  1. black shoe
  2. black shoes
  3. black sigatoka
  4. black silver
  5. black site
  6. black sites
  7. black skimmer
  8. black skimmers
  9. black slug
  10. black slugs
  11. black smoke

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Adapted from Wiktionary: black sites (page history and authors); black site (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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