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Harrison Armstrong: Cautioned for needlessly dragging Bruno Fernandes round the neck, but a minor blot on an otherwise impressive performance.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

A 5-2 thrashing by Atletico Madrid in September was an early blot in Alonso's copy book, while even when Madrid were winning games, they were not overly convincing.

From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026

Many of the towering sycamore trees and elder oaks — probably far older than even the adult Scout leaders — still blot out the midday sun with new, green leaves sprouting from their charred trunks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

Yes, he did so with the help of Hitler and Mussolini, and his proximity to these evil men is a true blot on his record.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

“That’s the reason I was born in it,” observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

The shadow cast when the Moon blots out the Sun will begin in Russia's remote Arctic north at around 1700 GMT and continue in an arc over Greenland and Iceland.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

In the past, some funds administered Rorschach tests, asking prospective recruits to assess ink blots, aiming to measure their ability to manage complexity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025

Occasional poorer performances have been blots on a generally excellent campaign.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025

Will it be a fiery landscape where sizzling sidewalks cause second-degree burns, wildfire smoke blots out the sun, and water flows only sometimes, and mostly not at all?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2024

One of the books has careful notations along one side, while the other is covered in blots.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Dozens queued on a pontoon at Fourka waiting to flee as smoke blotted out the sky over the resorts, according to images broadcast by ERT.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

When the helmsman said that it didn’t, Pericles asked, “so, where’s the difference between this and the eclipse, except that something bigger than my cape has blotted out the sun?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

In an alternative pre-history, we might imagine those early gaze-following dinos continuing to evolve, unmolested by giant asteroids that blotted out the sun.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2024

As for Rose, bogeys on 17 and 18 blotted an otherwise excellent round.

From BBC ● May 19, 2024

On one page titled “To Reverse Glamour,” many lines were crossed out, and the ink had been smeared and blotted several times as if her mother had been trying different combinations.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

Further analysis using Western blotting showed that protein changes remained detectable even after cells were transferred back into fluid with normal viscosity.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Rothbard blamed Smith’s celebrity for blotting out the better work of abler minds, but Turgot had kept his genius mainly to himself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

In total, more than 1.7 million satellites could soon be lighting up the night sky, obscuring or blotting out the view of ground-based telescopes.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

Needless to say, shaking off 2025 will require quite a bit of verbal blotting.

From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2025

Slant's eyes were not open; for several steps he walked with them closed—praying, I suppose, or blotting out that dawn, that pitiless approach.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson