blot
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Thereafter, and with the game long decided, England dropped six chances, five of which were tough, in the back half of West Indies' innings to blot their copybook somewhat.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
A 5-2 thrashing by Atletico Madrid in September was an early blot in Alonso's copy book, while even when Madrid were winning games, they were not overly convincing.
From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026
Failure would be an indelible blot on his record and vastly complicate life for his successors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
A black blot suddenly appears on the wall, as if someone hurled an inkpot.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025
“Are you certain? It looks like an ink blot test.”
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
In the past, some funds administered Rorschach tests, asking prospective recruits to assess ink blots, aiming to measure their ability to manage complexity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025
Occasional poorer performances have been blots on a generally excellent campaign.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025
On further investigation, his team discovered that many of those papers were riddled with fishy data and questionable images, such as duplicated lanes within Western blots.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 28, 2024
One example, a rectangular congregation of serpentine blots, is inked on a paper towel.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
Your Honor, injustice blots out one form of life, but another grows up in its place with its own rights, needs, and aspirations.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
When the helmsman said that it didn’t, Pericles asked, “so, where’s the difference between this and the eclipse, except that something bigger than my cape has blotted out the sun?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Until last Sunday, when black towers of smoke blotted out the sun.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
Any fruits and veggies you aren't going to eat immediately should be blotted with a dry paper towel or put in a salad spinner to remove moisture and reduce germ growth.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2024
As for Rose, bogeys on 17 and 18 blotted an otherwise excellent round.
From BBC ● May 19, 2024
It is most extraordinary—not a single word of this letter has blotted.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
In total, more than 1.7 million satellites could soon be lighting up the night sky, obscuring or blotting out the view of ground-based telescopes.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
From up in the space shuttle, in 1983, astronaut Sally Ride could see the pollution blotting out her Los Angeles hometown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
Needless to say, shaking off 2025 will require quite a bit of verbal blotting.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2025
He's previously said that his earliest memory was "a massive ship at the end of my street, towering over the houses and blotting out the sun".
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025
The hideous tank loomed over Carmen’s neighborhood, blotting out the sun.
From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis
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