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Recent Examples of eyesore
For some 40 years, the land has sat unused, generating little tax revenue and posing as an eyesore.
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Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 25 Sep. 2025
The mall fills up with crappy weed shops and keychain hawkers; underfunding means the maintenance slips; eventually, maybe, there’s a bankruptcy, followed by a long twilight as an eyesore.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2025
Something that can grace our bedside without looking like an eyesore.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 19 Sep. 2025
Indeed, the not-in-my-backyard crowd has less to complain about when the eyesores in question are barely visible on the horizon.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
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Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 25 Sep. 2025
The mall fills up with crappy weed shops and keychain hawkers; underfunding means the maintenance slips; eventually, maybe, there’s a bankruptcy, followed by a long twilight as an eyesore.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2025
Something that can grace our bedside without looking like an eyesore.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 19 Sep. 2025
Indeed, the not-in-my-backyard crowd has less to complain about when the eyesores in question are barely visible on the horizon.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for eyesore
mess
Noun
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By contrast, the ICE facility was a mess of overflowing dumpsters, loose body armor and crowd control munitions and a broken HVAC air conditioning system that raised both temperatures and tempers in the aging building.—
Keith Wilson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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Carving out the insides of a jack o'lantern leaves you with a big ol mess of pumpkin seeds and innards.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Eyesore.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eyesore. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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