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
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
The blob was earth-toned and splashed bestselling covers for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
That flying blob of insanity isn’t for everyone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
Next, I moved the pan off the heat and poured its now-melted contents carefully onto the table, forming a fist-sized blob of soft wax.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
“It’s like this that humanism itself gets swallowed up by nihilism,” he adds, concretizing that image in his movie with many scenes of environmental degradation realized as crawling blobs of death.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Natural gas is used by glass manufacturers to run their furnaces, which melt sand, soda ash, limestone and recycled glass into molten glass blobs which are then shaped into bottles.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
On a screen, they saw a series of colorful, balloon-like blobs.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2025
But as he sees it, the balloony blobs can be like freeways: functional and necessary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2025
Then everyone else on the dance floor also began to shape-shift, melting into prismatic blobs of light.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Dr. Nguyen designed a simulated model of both individual and blobbed blackworms, involving small blobs of 20 identical worms.
From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 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 said three of the students had since asked "that their images be taken out" and that they would be "pixelated or blobbed".
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2013
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
