blot
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The German DAX was one blot on the early European picture, falling 0.7% as SAP tumbled 12% after announcing earnings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 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
That did not blot out the fear in many fields that raids could happen at any moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2025
The Springbok lock Etzebeth was then sent off for his attack on Mann in what proved the only blot on South Africa's copybook.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
Harry yelled, trying to blot the screaming from his ears.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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
You should see the great blots I used to make.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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
Until last Sunday, when black towers of smoke blotted out the sun.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
As Cardena reflected, a Royal Air Force C-17 temporarily blotted out the sun and covered the beachgoers with a gargantuan shadow as it passed over Huntington.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2025
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
But the sun was blotted out by the ash and smoke.
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
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
"Hello darkness my old friend" says Metro, showing the Moon slowly blotting out the Sun as seen in the skies above south London, where a 97% eclipse was witnessed.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 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
Maybe we’ll really let things go so far that we’ll seriously need to consider blotting out the sky someday soon.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026
Perhaps the hard flat light of the West was blotting out his birthplace.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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