blip

verb

Definition of blipnext
as in to clip

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Recent Examples of blip Once upon a time, this decision would have been an 11th hour save—but in 2025 markets barely blipped. — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2025 Chen’s set, interweaved throughout several episodes, goes fine — it’s hit and miss (there are also probably some translation blips that disservice the wording). — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2025 Luckily, Nan finds the correct disk just in time to save the crew from getting blipped from existence, and Walton gets the fatal-content-error screen that indicates the game has been deleted from the server entirely. — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025 The radar blips were satellites; the alert was a false alarm. — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blip
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blip
  1. clip
  2. wipe out
  3. erase
  4. bleep
  5. obliterate
  6. remove
  7. blot out
  8. eradicate
Verb
  • Onwurah wrote the film in a time of fury over a news clipping.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 30 July 2026
  • The busy section of road had been closed since July 13, when a truck traveling east clipped the underside of the span.
    — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 30 July 2026
Definition of clip
Verb
  • The two once presented a live demo minutes after a computer cloud crash wiped out their materials, winning anyway after Andreou pitched the product entirely from memory.
    — Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 27 June 2026
  • Widespread flooding across Kentucky has left at least four dead Saturday, prompting dozens of rescues after heavy rains wiped out bridges, inundated roads and flooded homes, with more significant rainfall on the way.
    — Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 27 June 2026
Definition of wipe out
Verb
  • In the third inning, the Rockies erased Salvador Perez’s leadoff single as Massey grounded into a double play.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
  • How neighborhoods can reclaim their parks Finch and Thrasher met with Walker in December to offer their thoughts on how to erase the stigma.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of erase
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of bleep
Verb
  • And then Conine, who had the walk-off hit for the Marlins on Monday, obliterated a middle-middle changeup from Phillies reliever Jonathan Bowlan for a 424-foot home run.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 29 July 2026
  • But, Congressman, the president, Pete Hegseth, had said they were obliterated, decimated.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 July 2026
Definition of obliterate
Verb
  • Like during OpenAI’s tests, normal safety guardrails were removed during Anthropic’s evaluations to assess their models’ full capabilities.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 31 July 2026
  • Under Grayson's direction, Massey went to the stove to remove it.
    — Jerry Nowicki, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Definition of remove
Verb
  • Californians suffered from terrible air quality, struggling to breathe amid the COVID-19 pandemic as a sooty plume blotted out the sun.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
  • The phenomenon, where smoke blots out the blue sky overhead, making the air appear milky-white or even orange, has become a relatively regular fixture of summers where out-of-control wildfires in the West bring noxious smoke downwind.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 17 July 2026
Definition of blot out
Verb
  • Following the campaign, Rome aggressively eradicated and restructured local settlements, while instituting repressive laws designed to assimilate the area into the greater empire.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 July 2026
  • Antibacterial wipes can also be beneficial for eradicating dirt and germs from both handles and zippers.
    — Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 27 July 2026
Definition of eradicate

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“Blip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blip. Accessed 2 Aug. 2026.

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