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Recent Examples of blip
In Avengers: Infinity War, he got blipped (snapped? dusted?) with half of the world’s population after Thanos gained all six Infinity Stones.
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Time, 22 June 2023
Shake that features a shimmery, blipping pop backdrop.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023
With a Final Four berth on the line, Gallegos viewed a patchy livestream of the taut Aztecs-Creighton game … until the screen blipped out.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
With it off, the additional footwork required to blip the revs yourself feels more natural, though not as consistent.
—Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 21 Nov. 2022
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Time, 22 June 2023
Shake that features a shimmery, blipping pop backdrop.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023
With a Final Four berth on the line, Gallegos viewed a patchy livestream of the taut Aztecs-Creighton game … until the screen blipped out.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
With it off, the additional footwork required to blip the revs yourself feels more natural, though not as consistent.
—Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 21 Nov. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blip
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Wear rubber gloves and clip a mangled licking branch (which holds the forehead and saliva scent of several bucks and does) from atop an active scrape and wire it over a mock scrape near your stand.Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
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During a July rally in Butler, Pa., a rooftop gunman clipped Trump in the right ear and killed an attendee.Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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Early voting is often critical in the state, and registered Republicans appear to have wiped out the advantage Democrats enjoyed four years ago.Niall Stanage, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024
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During the California Gold Rush, San Francisco was almost wiped out by a magnitude 7.9 earthquake.Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 31 Oct. 2024
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And what a loss that would be, erasing the splashes of yellow and orange every fall and silencing the quaking of the leaves.Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 18 Nov. 2024
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Compared to its March peak of $123, the price has plunged over 85%, erasing over $55 billion in value.Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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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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International broadcasters get their own raw feed of the ceremony and must decide on their own whether to bleep — which is why unbleeped video from other countries soon appeared on social media, showcasing what really happened.Michael Schneider, Variety, 28 Mar. 2022
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Your ordinary sense of self, too, while not obliterated or dissolved, will likely begin to lose its familiar anchors in space and time.Oshan Jarow, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
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Think of it like nuclear energy, a tool that can simultaneously provide endless clean electricity or obliterate the globe depending on how it’s used.Chadd Scott, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Next week: Mesa Ridge at Montrose, TBA No. 3 Pueblo West beat No. 19 Golden, 49-7: Two weeks removed from their first loss of the season, the Cyclones ended a streak of three straight Round of 16 exits with a rout of Golden.Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 17 Nov. 2024
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Teams had to shore up the structure in the efforts to reach him and he wasn't removed until a little after midnight, O’Neill said.Doha Madani, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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For a few precious minutes during a solar eclipse, the Moon blots out the disk of the Sun, revealing its wispy outer atmosphere, or corona.ByHannah Richter, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
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Big enough to credibly watch The Good Place, small enough to talk on without blotting out the sun.David Pierce, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2017
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California has spent millions eradicating invasive species like nutria, Atlantic cordgrass and the European green crab.Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
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By eradicating the metal wire, EBY instead opted for a nylon thread, taking over the duty of the wire.Essence, Essence, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Blip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blip. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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