blemish, margin, overshadow, spoil

People are looking for someone to blame for the sharp rises in consumer prices in recent years—and corporations are often top of the list. What actually seems to be happening is that families and businesses are sharing the spoils of the post-pandemic economy. Read why: https://econ.trib.al/bKyoIbN

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Long Stuck in Obscurity, Bay Bridge Will Go From Drab Gray to Glowing

By MALIA WOLLAN

SAN FRANCISCO — An art installation, billed as the world’s largest L.E.D. sculpture, is set to illuminate the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the Golden Gate’s long-overshadowed rival.

Obama Approach to Diplomacy Faces Test in China
By STEVEN LEE MYERS


President Obama’s human rights policy faces its most public test as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives in Beijing for talks overshadowed by the fate of a Chinese lawyer.

For Obama, Health Care Pushes Other Issues to the Margins
By PETER BAKER
For several weeks the issue of health care has overshadowed every other issue, foreign and domestic, faced by President Obama.

"Every country has blemishes. Why does Beijing feel the need to hide theirs?" Yang Guizi, Syracuse


It will cite the amount of nonresponse, and of any other uncorrected operational blemishes detected. If there is a formal statistical control of the work (p. 39), the statistician's report will include evaluation of operational blemishes such as: a. Failures to define or otherwise designate the sampling units in the manner prescribed. ...

7.	on Page 65:
	"... uncertainty in a figure. The report should evaluate and interpret the margin of sampling error, and the possible effect of blemishes and blunders made in carrying out the survey-procedure (see the example on page 19). ..."

 overshadow

[動](他)

1 …の影を薄くさせる, …を見劣りさせる

He was overshadowed by his illustrious father.
高名な父のために影が薄い存在だった.

2 …に影を投げかける, …をかげらせる；…を暗くする；…を陰うつにする.

blemish noun [C]
a mark which spoils the appearance of someone or something