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Rasmussen lasted through the seventh inning, leaving that home run as the only blemish on his outing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

His only blemish remains a draw with Frazer Clarke, a result he emphatically avenged with a first-round stoppage.

From BBC ● May 8, 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

Sagimet’s denifanstat showed increased blemish clearance in young adults after a year, with a 20% reduction in pimples after three months compared with a placebo in a China study.

From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026

She was popular, an only child, and by all accounts without blemish.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

Sure, there were blemishes to their 20-17 overtime victory at Chicago on Sunday night, just as their three-point win at Carolina had its wild-card warts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2026

There were some blemishes on an otherwise solid print.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025

In large amounts, fluoride causes unsightly blemishes on teeth, and it may even have some negative health consequences.

From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2025

If I wanted to work on a top-secret space project someday, I couldn’t have any blemishes on my record.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine

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

But the history is checkered and the beauty is blemished.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2024

We’ve developed creative ways to mitigate waste, finding secondary uses for produce that’s past its prime—whether bent, broken, bruised, blemished, or overly ripe.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2024

Later that year, then-Secretary General Ban Ki-moon apologized for the organization’s role in the outbreak, saying it blemished “the reputation of U.N. peacekeeping and the organization worldwide.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2022

Stared up at the full moon's blemished face.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos

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

Brooks faced the minimum eight batters in 2⅔ innings, with only a hit batter blemishing his line.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2019

Also their philosophers that they call Gymnosophists stand in most hot gravel from the morning till evening, and behold the sun without blemishing of their eyes.

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Robert Steele