blipping

verb

present participle of blip
as in bleeping

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  1. removing
  2. clipping
  3. obliterating
  4. erasing
  5. eradicating
  6. wiping out
  7. expunging
  8. effacing
Verb
  • Despite the use of search dogs and removing slabs of concrete, police came up empty.
    — Eileen Murphy, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The order prevents anyone from withholding or obstructing necessary treatment or removing, discharging, or transferring the child while the court considers the case.
    — Briseida Holguin, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of removing
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  • Algorithmic video feeds have accelerated this transition, as more and more podcast companies see clipping for TikTok and the like as the primary discovery method for podcasts — and, in some cases, whole brands.
    — Max Tani, semafor.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • His platform pays armies of short-form video clippers to flood feeds for brands, the model behind the clipping farms driving fintech marketing and crypto gambling's viral machine.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of clipping
Verb
  • Then, on August 6, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, obliterating nearly five square miles of the city.
    — James M. Scott, Time, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Instead, the teams combined to score 19 runs, obliterating my total.
    — David Troy, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026
Definition of obliterating
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  • Reading scores of New York City public school students plummeted this past school year, erasing improvements in the subject recorded a year before, sparking calls from the teachers’ union for a change in approach.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The record-setting Warriors were only a few months removed from erasing a 3-1 series deficit to eliminate Durant’s Thunder in the Western Conference finals.
    — Devon Henderson, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of erasing
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  • This is a sector that’s helped solve civilizational challenges like eradicating smallpox and lifting more than a billion people out of extreme poverty.
    — Max Simkoff, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026
  • This new war on poverty seems intent on increasing it, not eradicating it.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of eradicating
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  • Shares slumped 16% for a third straight session of losses, wiping out $400 billion in market cap on Monday alone.
    — Gail Krishnan, CNBC, 23 June 2026
  • The prospect of even a mini-Dust Bowl is alarming as the original disaster during the Great Depression sent dust clouds across rural America, wiping out entire communities and triggering mass migration to other parts of the country.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 21 June 2026
Definition of wiping out
Verb
  • With Ukraine busy expunging Russian cultural influences, and cities and towns removing Russian historical and literary figures’ statues and street names, the idea of a new program focused on Ukraine’s former imperial master raised eyebrows.
    — Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2026
  • In addition to activities, teens will have access to resources such as job training, housing information, and support with expunging criminal records.
    — Hannah McIlree, CBS News, 12 May 2026
Definition of expunging
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  • Their struggle has upturned the tabletop candle that illuminates the scene and any moment will surely extinguish it, effacing the giddy pattern formed by the writhing bodies and glowing, veiny bladder skin.
    — Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The leaps in time have the eerie effect of effacing time—the layered succession of images implying their simultaneity in Lidia’s mind.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2026
Definition of effacing
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