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blip

[blip] / blɪp /
NOUN
minor shock
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“Performance art was a blip on the cultural radar,” says Newton.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

What is happening at Stars and Stripes is not a mere controversy of the day or week, or a blip in the attention economy and 24-hour news cycle.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

Pope Leo’s sermon and Rabbi Goldstein’s response may be simply a blip in the relations of Catholics and Jews that have improved so much over the past 60 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Arsenal will hope this blip is only a footnote in what can still be a successful season - but the Gunners are going to have get back to their best, and quickly.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

Yet counting all species together, there were still no more than perhaps a million humans living between the Indonesian archipelago and the Iberian peninsula, a mere blip on the ecological radar.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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