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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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Once Jeopardy's John Pork question was clipped for TikTok, users on the platform argued that the clue wasn't completely accurate, as John Pork appeared on social media as early as 2018, before generative AI was widely accessible.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Nov. 2025
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Melissa went on to tear through Cuba and the Bahamas before clipping Bermuda on its way out to sea.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Nov. 2025
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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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The drop in SoftBank shares has erased nearly $50 billion in market cap over two days.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
5 Nov. 2025
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These services do all the work for you by actively monitoring and systematically erasing your personal information from hundreds of websites.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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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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The compact white bots with little orange flags and vaguely tortoise-like bodies will bleep-bloop food from participating businesses to locations within a small urban radius.—
Ali Francis,
Bon Appétit,
14 Oct. 2022
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The Kustric trucking business was just two weeks in operation when a plane, falling from the sky, obliterated their semi-trailer truck.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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Suddenly, the plane crashed and obliterated his home.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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These risks have prompted the United States, China, and other spacefaring nations to develop advanced systems for tracking, avoiding, and potentially removing orbital debris.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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My son removes his shoes and socks and joins me.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
Verb
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News and weather reports record that smoke blotted out the Sun on one out of every three days, and sometimes sunlight never pierced the darkness.—
Robert Wyss,
The Conversation,
21 Oct. 2025
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Urban skyglow has robbed many of us of our night skies and the vast majority of the population of the United States now lives in regions where the stars are mostly blotted out by excessive lighting.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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His replacement, Nuno Espirito Santo, is another pragmatist, but West Ham’s performances had been so muddled as to eradicate hope, the nadir being a 2-0 home defeat by Brentford in which the hosts, despite the cost of their squad, already resembled a Championship team.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
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Organizers are unrolling multiple methods for eradicating these issues in 2026.—
Katie Bain,
Billboard,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Blip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blip. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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