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blip

[blip] / blɪp /
NOUN
minor shock
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As you can see from the chart below, this correlation has been in a steady downtrend over the past six decades — notwithstanding the blip upward during the global financial crisis.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

IBM reported a higher third-quarter profit and growing revenue across its software and infrastructure segments, as it looks to prove to investors that its disappointing second-quarter showing was just a blip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Jean and Joan’s shared existence would otherwise make their days dull and predictable, but their bizarre circumstances let them see beyond their own purview and into someone else’s, even if only for a blip.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

If he does, this will go down as a blip in an otherwise stunningly impressive breakthrough season by a potential future great.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

If either of them caught a blip from Pathfinder, they'd tell JPL.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Shelton has also suffered blips against opponents he was expected to beat, including a defeat by Swiss world number 222 Jerome Kym in Basel last week.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

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

"Once we understood this, the blips in dimming stopped being weird little mysteries and became a space weather station," Bouma exclaimed.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026

EDF is now trying out a different tune: a battery-powered mobile fish disco that can be lowered from a ship in lobster pots and fire out high-frequency blips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

“Bfff...He’s turning,” said the pilot between farty blips.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

The space station’s communications with ground controllers blipped out twice for a few minutes on Thursday.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2021

He spent a couple years just chilling until the MCU caught up with him in Infinity War, where he fought against Thanos until getting blipped.

From Slate ● Mar. 19, 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 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

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

There’s a call for solidarity in “Reach Out,” another march: “The darkness is winning again,” Tucker sings, amid blipping synthesizers that hint at Tame Impala.

From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2019

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

A hundred swallows darted between the gorge walls overhead, their shadows blipping across the shining water, across the children’s bodies and happy glistening faces.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols


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