blip
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In the vast stretch of world history, 250 years is a blip, a flash, a blink of the eye.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Tuba, or tubá, is one of many undersung wonders of tiny Colima state, a place that barely makes a blip on most international and even domestic tourists’ radar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
The high volatility during Tuesday’s trading session could wind up being a momentary blip as the hardware-infrastructure buildup to support generative artificial intelligence continues.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
U.S. corn prices, after a wartime blip, are back near their lowest point since the 2020 pandemic year.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
It makes me feel small, like a blip on the history of this little pageant.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
Against that backdrop, shares of Wingstop were down 4.8% on Wednesday, after occasional positive-territory blips earlier in the day.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026
"For a long time, no one knew quite what to make of these oddball little blips of dimming," Bouma said.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026
Three others crowded into the darkened shack offering advice and helping spot blips on the screen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Just four sets dropped across the entire tournament, with any perceived blips or wobbles not really worthy of the name.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
Gas chromatography of air samples might reveal blips of difference between substances released over a Glasgow football match, a committee meeting on academic promotions, and a summer beach on Saturday afternoon, all highly important.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
As per Monica’s conversation with the doctor, she was one of the people who was blipped, and must now reintegrate into a society that’s moved on without her.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2021
The first data ever transmitted over Arpanet, the precursor of the internet, blipped from a computer at the University of California, Los Angeles to one at the Stanford Research Institute in Palo Alto on Oct.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2019
He blipped on the radar of security services in early 2015, when he made his first failed bid to reach Syria.
From Reuters ● Jul. 29, 2016
The show blipped onto theater lovers’ radars when it emerged in a 2012 New York production that won the Lucille Lortel Award, the off-Broadway equivalent of a Tony, for outstanding musical.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2016
The static blipped and focused as the stations turned.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
Take “First Rodeo,” a sleek midtempo track with twangy guitars and blipping synths in which Ballerini extends a metaphor about getting back on the horse further than you’d think possible without breaking it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2024
In “Year of Sky,” blipping synthesizers evolve into Philip Glass-style organ arpeggios as Hval — in her highest, most childlike register — strives to perceive both the minute insect realm and the expanding universe.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2022
Five police cars drove by, sirens blipping, and neighbors and friends drove by as well, holding signs of support.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 18, 2020
United are "monitoring" the Aalesunds No1, presumably on a black and green radar screen making an irregular blipping noise.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2010
And then, in a surprise blipping, Mrs. Pomodoro begins speaking in zoomzoomzoom Italian to Signora Divino, who is so shockfulled that she has to sit down on the stone wall.
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
