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
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
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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
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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