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blip

[blip] / blɪp /
NOUN
minor shock
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Cash incentives—the go-to tool of governments from Budapest to Seoul—have produced at best a temporary blip.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

“Backrooms” is a film only a 20-year-old — someone whose existence sits smack in-between decades of uniform past and the blip of a recent few years filled with massive change — could make.

From Salon • May 30, 2026

"Of course we want more British players in the top 100 and reaching the second weeks of Grand Slams - but we're in a blip at the moment," said former British number one Annabel Croft.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

The stock fell 16% over that period, and investors were perhaps starting to question whether it would be more than a blip.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

“Big blip in Europe. Southern Italy. No shield.”

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer




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