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beep

[beep] / bip /


VERB
call for electronically
Synonyms
STRONG
WEAK
track down


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Moxi – which shuttles medical supplies around hospitals – might respond by displaying its heart-shaped LED eyes and a beep beep greeting of its own.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

And, I promise, if the apocalypse actually comes, you can still beep me.”

From Salon Mar. 26, 2026

Now the vehicles only beep when there is someone or an object behind them.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 24, 2025

While hiking in a forest in the Mount Shasta area with a metal detector, browsing over rocks and dirt, his machine began to beep.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 13, 2025

I was already awake at 4:00 a.m. when the alarm on my wrist- watch began to beep; I’d been awake most of the night, struggling for breath in the meager air.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

There is a danger, however, that Lego’s light touch might backfire, and parents won’t be thrilled about paying premium prices for a toy that essentially has a few extra beeps and boops.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

My days are filled with the beeps and growls of bulldozers.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 31, 2025

However, Heathrow said the track also featured sounds from famous movie scenes, including passengers tapping their feet in Bend It Like Beckham and the beeps of a security scanner from Love Actually.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2025

The sounds of construction — the slow beeps of a truck in reverse, a pile driver pounding the hard earth — filled the air.

From Seattle Times May 31, 2024

Before I see it, I hear downtown, thick with beeps, shouts, police whistles.

From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai

Shortly afterwards, mobile phones beeped in unison as a missile alert came in and the wail of sirens started up.

From Barron's Mar. 10, 2026

The craft beeped awake, arched its hawklike shoulders, and whined off into the valley.

From New York Times Nov. 23, 2024

Jeannine Ursell, from North Ferriby, East Yorkshire, says she gets beeped at and shouted at by people in cars and vans.

From BBC Nov. 16, 2024

It beeped as Bach and others in his module repeatedly alerted deputies that the insulin pump was empty.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2024

As soon as the bread machine beeped, I pulled the loaf out, wrapped it in tinfoil, and put it in a cardboard box with the tray of lasagna.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

"There was just this incessant beeping," she said.

From BBC Apr. 29, 2026

The low hum of cars passing and horns beeping in the distance gives me a sense of safety; I’m never alone.

From Salon Mar. 15, 2026

Some residents have told The Times they’ve been unable to sleep because of the incessant beeping from Waymos maneuvering in and out of charging spots on the lot 24 hours a day.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 22, 2025

I have replayed, countless times, the moments of her birth: the beeping of the operating room, the orders of the obstetrician and the crippling silence after delivery.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 3, 2025

Mr. Terupt still lay motionless inside the vast whiteness and beeping of that building.

From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea




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