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Recent Examples of blip
The radar blips were satellites; the alert was a false alarm.
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Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
If emissions continue at their current trajectory, about one in twenty could blip out of existence.
—Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 7 Dec. 2024
Back to the Carrera T, and the latest 911 is fitted as standard with rear-wheel steering – this was an option on the previous T – along with a sports exhaust and a rev-matching function that blips the engine between downshifts.
—Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
Watching them blip along to the music is a fun retro touch.
—Chris Haslam, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2024
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Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
If emissions continue at their current trajectory, about one in twenty could blip out of existence.
—Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 7 Dec. 2024
Back to the Carrera T, and the latest 911 is fitted as standard with rear-wheel steering – this was an option on the previous T – along with a sports exhaust and a rev-matching function that blips the engine between downshifts.
—Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
Watching them blip along to the music is a fun retro touch.
—Chris Haslam, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blip
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Shiffrin was in the back of the start house when Duerr, skiing next to last on the second run, clipped the very first gate and crashed out.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
18 Feb. 2026
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Nadim had just finished praying at the nearby Dawood Mosque when the truck driver clipped him, a friend of Nadim’s told Urdu News.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
16 Feb. 2026
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The Show-Me state has two Democrats in Congress and four Republicans, and a map Trump posted on social media would wipe out one Democratic seat.—
Rachel Schilke,
The Washington Examiner,
1 Sep. 2025
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The Buckeyes benefited from a pair of penalties, including a face mask call on Colin Simmons that wiped out an incomplete pass on third-and-4.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Aug. 2025
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Cook County has also had a separate program to erase medical debt.—
Lisa Schencker,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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This administration is literally erasing Black and Transgender people from society.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Feb. 2026
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The 2026 awards show censors failed to completely bleep out an F-bomb during Sunday's live show.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Jan. 2026
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The club thought Beane was righteous and entertaining enough to feature his rant — that the Bills even had to bleep — at the very beginning of their behind-the-scenes draft special.—
Tim Graham,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Early morning lightning strikes on Tuesday led to two schools in Santa Rosa closing down for the day, including at one site where lightning obliterated a large tree.—
Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
17 Feb. 2026
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Moscow is at the mercy of an American president who circumvents traditional channels of power and obliterates the constraints that once regulated their use.—
Alan Cullison,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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The trooper then removed Jackson from the vehicle.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
17 Feb. 2026
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Jailbreaking in this context refers to a process that removes software restrictions placed on a piece of hardware.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Feb. 2026
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And Hanceville’s fate is as murky as the fog that pours in at night, blotting out buildings and blackening the road ahead.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
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Nothing a shot of mezcal with the pucker of sour apple can’t blot out.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2026
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These four novels create a convincing, wrenching, kaleidoscopic picture of the range and repetitions of the most fatal kind of love; the sort of love that allows nothing else to grow around it, that eradicates all dignity; a love which, in order to be completed, must be told.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Feb. 2026
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Because of these and other factors, the program to eradicate coca farming in Colombia failed, and production exploded.—
Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Blip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blip. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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