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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.
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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.
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Alistair Charlton,
Forbes,
30 Oct. 2024
Watching them blip along to the music is a fun retro touch.
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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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At the low end, a dog washing station is a hose, a spray nozzle and somewhere to clip the leash.
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His pass to Luis Romo was perhaps a little short but the midfielder kept his cool, finding Roberto Alvarado, who clipped a gorgeous, inviting pass over the top.
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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.
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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.
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Sue Kim, director of color marketing at Cabot paints, says refreshing these pieces should never erase the charm.
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In order to safely accomplish the stunt, Cruise was attached via a wire that was later erased in post production.
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The 2026 awards show censors failed to completely bleep out an F-bomb during Sunday's live show.
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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.
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Near the speed of light, special relativity wreaks havoc on clocks and time, obliterating the concept of simultaneity among observers traveling at different speeds.
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The situation has grown bleaker in the last decade and a half as commercial pressures have ramped up and media consolidation and digital shortsightedness have obliterated arts coverage.
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Three of the reports stemmed from consumers swallowing the metal pieces and seeking medical treatment to remove them from their digestive tract or throat, the agency said.
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Residents objected to removing trees and other construction activities.
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The sad fact of her victimization and her struggles in life can threaten to blot out the subtler, trickier elements of her magic.
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Extragalactic astronomers refer to a region behind our Milky Way as the 'Zone of Avoidance' because dust between our galaxy's stars blots out, or deeply reddens, light from more distant galaxies behind it.
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In 1980, smallpox became the first human disease ever eradicated worldwide.
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The rare partnership is giving the tribe an opportunity to introduce its language, history, culture that the federal government once tried to eradicate to soccer fans around the world.
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“Blip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blip. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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