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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
Verb
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Even 20 years ago, film wasn’t as accessible or easily clipped together.—
Jourdan Rodrigue,
New York Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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See the date announcement clip below.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
3 Mar. 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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The Red Raiders erase a 21-point deficit.—
Assistant Sports Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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When young mice that were housed with older mice were given antibiotics, however, the effect was erased.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 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
Verb
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So your sense is that maybe the strikes hadn’t obliterated Iran’s nuclear program?—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
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But if the obliteration lasted only half a year, what value is there in re-obliterating it?—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
3 Mar. 2026
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Order 1 dissolved the ruling Baath Party and removed all senior party members from their government positions, purging the administrative class that ran its ministries, hospitals and schools.—
Farah N. Jan,
The Conversation,
10 Mar. 2026
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The spokesperson said that Rodriguez Gutierrez chose to be removed with her children on March 5.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
Verb
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During her first bombing, Ginny had run for shelter into a perfume shop, where the proprietress methodically moved each bottle from the streetfront vitrine into a neat line on the floor as the dust from the percussive bombs blotted out the sun.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 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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But screening for latent TB — with treatment that can last up to nine months to fully eradicate the bacteria — is an expensive endeavor with a low payoff, considering that only 5% of people with latent TB will develop into an active case.—
Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
9 Mar. 2026
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If the name isn't enough to deter you, Langelo warns that bishop's weed (Aegopodium podagraria) is an extremely aggressive grower that is challenging to eradicate.—
Madeline Buiano,
Martha Stewart,
7 Mar. 2026
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“Blip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blip. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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