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blot on the landscape





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“Such investments will soon be stranded assets — a blot on the landscape and a blight on investment portfolios.”

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2022

“Such investments will soon be stranded assets, a blot on the landscape and a blight on investment portfolios.”

From The Verge • Apr. 4, 2022

And the towering concrete building no longer looks like an aberration - a concrete blot on the landscape - but a building once again alive with people, with ideas, and with inspiration.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2016

But like Bastion itself, the detention facility Britain has erected within its walls has become a blot on the landscape.

From Time • May 30, 2013

I’m going to make that old shack that was always a blot on the landscape such a marvel of beauty that it won’t know itself.

From The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)