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Moth swarms so thick they can blot out the stars are fluttering across Australia, heralding a migratory spectacle unseen since the creature's brush with extinction nearly 10 years ago.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The only blot on his CV is that despite enjoying two magnificent individual seasons at Real Madrid, he is yet to win a major trophy in the Spanish capital.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

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

A black blot suddenly appears on the wall, as if someone hurled an inkpot.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025

Then he pulled a new bottle out of his bedside cabinet, dipped his quill into it, and dropped a blot onto the first page of the diary.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

For architecture and design lovers, among the biggest blots on the Orbán era was the mismanagement of Budapest’s Museum of Applied Arts, located in a landmark 1890s art nouveau building.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

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

The frustration blots out everything so that all I can focus on is this weird heaviness in my chest.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

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

He has already blotted his copybook with the inquiry's chair Sir Wyn Williams over a £450,000 bonus he was due to receive.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024

Midway through her halftime show, the singer blotted her nose with her own setting powder, which saw sales skyrocket after the big game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

The shape of him just stands there, blotted out by snow.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

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

"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

The worst part is the joy blooming inside me from the fruit, blotting out the terror.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black