black eye
noun
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Only now, America’s getting the reputational black eye too — at home!
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Gil Troy, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
Its 17% revenue decline was such a black eye on its prior earnings report that the market didn’t even care about green shoots in North America.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 29 Mar. 2026
The loss, in the first of thousands of product-liability lawsuits against Meta, Google and other social networks, is the kind of black eye that often leads to an increase in government regulations.
—Kurt Wagner, Bloomberg, 26 Mar. 2026
The question is whether this is a black eye for the whole industry or a shakeout that boosts better managers and kills off the sloppy ones.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 24 Mar. 2026
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Gil Troy, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
Its 17% revenue decline was such a black eye on its prior earnings report that the market didn’t even care about green shoots in North America.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 29 Mar. 2026
The loss, in the first of thousands of product-liability lawsuits against Meta, Google and other social networks, is the kind of black eye that often leads to an increase in government regulations.
—Kurt Wagner, Bloomberg, 26 Mar. 2026
The question is whether this is a black eye for the whole industry or a shakeout that boosts better managers and kills off the sloppy ones.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 24 Mar. 2026
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“Black eye.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/black%20eye. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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