blip
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But employees shouldn’t get too excited: Projected pay increases may seem more like a blip than a bump.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 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
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’s not a blip, what’s going on—there is a sort of larger spark,” said EPI President Heidi Shierholz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 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
Despite occasional blips of good news, growth always seems to be softer than hoped and inflation more persistent, and a dangerous pessimism is taking root.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
But there are blips in the season and we are going through that now.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025
It was an odd and familiar sound—Joe Castiglione’s voice and the crack of the bat, layered with occasional farty blips and cryptic messages between cops and dispatchers.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
Communications with ground controllers also blipped out twice for a few minutes.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
Both Sam and Bucky are among the populace that had been blipped out of existence five years ago and are suddenly without one of their closest friends — Captain America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2021
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
We had almost made it back into the neighborhood, when lights flashed and a siren blipped behind us.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
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
On the other side of the park, a police squad car rolled slowly past, blipping the lights and siren every few moments.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
