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One blemish on the chart was the failed breakout above the $133.47 cup-with-handle pivot on May 19.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

And in a culture so hellbent on idol worship and exhausting discourse, where every blemish is smoothed out or screamed at, “SNL” still offers us something scrappy and unvarnished.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026

The only blemish was when Glenn put one hand down on her final jump — the same triple loop that cost her in her short program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

One blemish for the iPhone 17 lineup has been the iPhone Air.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

Their faces were so full of grace, so free of blemish, so perfect, that even today, even in the old black-and-white film, you can almost see the pink blush of their cheeks.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Brilliant as Wales were against North Macedonia, the performance was not without its blemishes.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

Coating cools while dripping from an arm, smiles askew send mixed signals, smeared eyes like they’d been up late partying with the tarts, blemishes, cracked sugary skin.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026

Late Monday, Sagimet announced that young adults showed increased clearance of their blemishes when they stayed on its pill for a year.

From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026

Workers wearing rubber gloves scanned the advancing fruit, grabbing any mandarins with blemishes and dropping them into chutes to be trucked to a juice plant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2025

In this fluorescent lighting, the blemishes and wrinkles in his brown skin look more obvious than usual.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

That record is blemished by his removal from an assignment based on his Francis-like tendencies, which may have had a hand in his failure to rise above the lowest of the U.S.

From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026

Shoppers can also keep an eye out for blemished or less than aesthetically ideal produce while at the store.

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2024

The two hour and 15 minute show, blemished only by some occasionally muddy sound, touched on mortality a number of times.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2024

Who has time to look at tier 1 capital ratios when you’re urgently shifting your cash to a bank with a less blemished recent history?

From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023

The incongruity of queuing to beg for food made her feel uncomfortable, blemished.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The ruckus is blemishing what had been a successful period for Ukraine’s military, which has stopped some Russian advances and even regained a bit of territory over recent months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Senate when she died, and questions about her mental capacity shadowed her final years in office, blemishing her reputation and forcing her to repeatedly fend off calls to resign.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023

He hasn’t lost in 16 fights since dropping a majority decision to Floyd Mayweather in 2013, with only a draw against Gennady Golovkin blemishing his record.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2021

But the defence, along with the team as a whole, improved markedly after half-time and never looked like blemishing only their second clean sheet of the season after the break.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2016

Ruth Somerville saw In sorrow and silence this blemishing flaw In the friend whom she loved with devotion!

From Three Women by Ella Wheeler Wilcox