eyesore
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Since then, the site has sat empty and become an eyesore, said Chito Vela, an Austin city council member whose district includes the project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
South L.A. locals say the Destination Crenshaw project has become disruptive and an eyesore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Once a neighbourhood eyesore, Heuermann's childhood home now draws the media and true crime obsessives.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
Over half of it will be elevated -- a major concern for Alexandrians who fear the tree-lined track will be replaced by eyesore concrete stilts.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
Grigori’s words passed through my head: An eyesore of rotten wood, stacked haphazardly, without taste or culture.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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But festering eyesores are everywhere, as Bass herself indicated when she called in to KTLA-TV.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Now, a small number of builders are on a mission to ensure that new data centers don’t have to be eyesores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
The ordinance isn’t a mechanism to remove mere eyesores, but a way to remove buildings that are open and unsafe.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
He spoke glowingly about his father’s early years as a Manhattan developer, his work turning eyesores into thriving skyscrapers, and the “vision he had to do things differently.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
The hills and valleys around were eyesores and aching pits, and I never loved them till I left them.
From The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii by Jack London
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