blips

present tense third-person singular of blip

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for blips
Verb
  • The latter happens when a ball clips the net before dropping in play.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Verb
  • Reducing Zarutska’s cruel and untimely death to racist memes also erases the role that mental health — something that Republicans are happy to bring up whenever a white mass shooter guns down Americans in cold blood — likely played in the ghastly crime.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Something that erases any evidence of itself?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In this new gem, the USS Farragut is on a planetary survey of Helicon Gamma when a shark-like scavenger spaceship appears and obliterates the planet.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Loktev grants us glimpses of life lived on the margins of that work, and the unwavering steadiness of her gaze obliterates any distinctions between the personal, the professional, and the political.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Washing and disinfecting decorative pumpkins removes fungal spores and will slow that process down.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The AquaTru Classic is a highly effective countertop reverse osmosis system with a four-stage filtration process that removes up to 99 percent of more than 80 contaminants, including lead, fluoride and PFAS.
    Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist and a former Google executive, has warned in the past that there is a 10% to 20% chance that AI wipes out humans.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2025
  • That timeline could shrink if a massive fraud wipes out public confidence in the Internet.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Bonacini wants gold — a sterilizing cure that eradicates every trace of the virus and cannot return.
    Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2025
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“Blips.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blips. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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