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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

South L.A. locals say the Destination Crenshaw project has become disruptive and an eyesore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

Once a neighbourhood eyesore, Heuermann's childhood home now draws the media and true crime obsessives.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026

I say: "We're not asking for money. We're not asking for anything but permission to remove an eyesore and transform a communal place. It would be an improvement."

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Now, a small number of builders are on a mission to ensure that new data centers don’t have to be eyesores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

He spoke glowingly about his father’s early years as a Manhattan developer, his work turning eyesores into thriving skyscrapers, and the “vision he had to do things differently.”

From Washington Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

But that doesn’t help the problem of toxic metals from this crap which scientists say are now polluting our upper atmosphere, nor the light pollution these eyesores create.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2023

Now the eyesores of the squalid town were hidden from critical sight, and the alluring softness and mystery of an ancient Spanish city made one forget the almost unforgetable.

From Bring Me His Ears by Clarence E. Mulford


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