blob
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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
Within minutes, sunlight transforms this material into an ionized gas shield that slows the oncoming massive blob of plasma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
While worldwide sea surface temperatures have increased by 1C on average since 1900, the cold blob region has cooled by up to 0.9C, according to a 2019 study.
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
And there I was, on the Cramps’ couch, so soft and so scared I’d have made a blob of whipped cream look tough, and Teds towering over me.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
Players try to clear their screen of coloured blobs by lining them up and popping them, creating chain reactions called 'dairensa'.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Seen with the naked eye from the stern of our 40-foot tour boat, the dark blobs bobbing in the restless sea didn’t look like much.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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
Thomas and me, with Fig snuggled in my arms, along with two blobs where my parents used to be.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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
