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[blob] / blɒb /


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On climate maps, it appears as a strange blue smudge in a sea of red - the so-called cold blob.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

"That cold isn't a kind of a get-out-of-jail-free card in terms of global warming. Some of the hot extremes can actually be exacerbated by this cold blob in the Atlantic," McCarthy said.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

That had to be a whiff of flop-sweat from the Atlanta 1996 games’ blue blob mascot, something like an anthropomorphized teardrop, originally named Whatizit for the obvious reaction it generated, and later just Izzy.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2026

We are no longer talking about individual law enforcement agencies, but rather a giant, singular blob.

From Slate Feb. 9, 2026

But finally Iola got creamed by a purple blob monster in level six.

From "Trouble at the Arcade (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #1)" by Franklin W. Dixon

"In this model, blobs of matter are chaotically being ejected from the surface of the bloated stars in an asymmetric fashion," Fuller says.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

She makes a "smoothie" out of her fluffy yellow cream, rubbing blobs on the back of her hand and mixing it with a tinted moisturiser.

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

My friends were skeptical as I placed the uneven, cinnamon-covered blobs in their palms.

From Salon Mar. 17, 2026

The Na’vi, eco-warriors with hardbodied girlfriends, fight back along with assorted alien dinosaurs, whales, squids, plants and blobs.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 16, 2025

Then she saw the dark blobs in the cells—the shadows that did not belong there.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Over the previous 10 years of Test cricket, England's openers blobbed out 27 times in 121 matches, an average of one opener-duck per 4.5 Tests.

From BBC Dec. 31, 2021

Speaking of Wharton, I see even she has been blobbed!

From New York Times Dec. 15, 2021

Admittedly, as that student blobbed into the man I am today, I do wonder if the sedentary Lister was the wisest role model to choose.

From The Guardian Sep. 21, 2017

Revelers blobbed together, migrating as Rio’s winter twilight slipped in.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2016

He blobbed on the paint, working spasmodically, and occasionally he refreshed himself at the piano with a verse of the latest popular song.

From In Friendship's Guise by William Murray Graydon

Dr. Ding, who studies blobbing in the much-studied nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, described her C. elegans blobs as “strongly overlapping, like a bowl of spaghetti noodles.”

From New York Times Oct. 25, 2021

Maisie suggested painting and I started blobbing out pretty colours.

From The Guardian Mar. 31, 2017

Beside her on each side, both Ess and Loo were already scribbling and blobbing ink all over their stones.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder




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