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eyesore

[ahy-sawr, ahy-sohr] / ˈaɪˌsɔr, ˈaɪˌsoʊr /


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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

However, Michael McNally said the current building was "a bit of an eyesore".

From BBC Jun. 1, 2026

"It has been an eyesore for a number of years," she said.

From BBC Mar. 29, 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

I finally reach the top, pass the red neon eyesore, and coast down Overlook Road, past my house.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

But festering eyesores are everywhere, as Bass herself indicated when she called in to KTLA-TV.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2026

While the Interior Department cited security concerns, the president has railed against the turbines as eyesores and bad for property values.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 15, 2026

If fashion is a storyteller, what are these eyesores trying to tell us?

From Salon Jun. 7, 2025

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

Slums, the dead uniformity of long rows of houses, sordid back-gardens, bourgeois public statues—all these eyesores are mercifully hidden by the roofed surface.

From Cavalry of the Clouds by Alan Bott




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