blip
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At first, the challenges with Codex appeared to be nothing more than a blip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
In the vast stretch of world history, 250 years is a blip, a flash, a blink of the eye.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Tuba, or tubá, is one of many undersung wonders of tiny Colima state, a place that barely makes a blip on most international and even domestic tourists’ radar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
The high volatility during Tuesday’s trading session could wind up being a momentary blip as the hardware-infrastructure buildup to support generative artificial intelligence continues.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
"My daughter's been responsible for setting a few unnatural beauty trends among the younger courtiers. That terrible blip with the sea-blue skin tone, and the trend where courtiers matched their teacup pets."
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Against that backdrop, shares of Wingstop were down 4.8% on Wednesday, after occasional positive-territory blips earlier in the day.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026
"Once we understood this, the blips in dimming stopped being weird little mysteries and became a space weather station," Bouma exclaimed.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026
EDF is now trying out a different tune: a battery-powered mobile fish disco that can be lowered from a ship in lobster pots and fire out high-frequency blips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
But there are blips in the season and we are going through that now.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025
The screens filled with thousands of white blips: an electromagnetic cloud.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
In “The End of Oak Street,” a Michigan suburb is mysteriously blipped into the Cretaceous period and the movie theater teleports back four decades to when a picture like this opened every month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Communications with ground controllers also blipped out twice for a few minutes.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
Jimmy specifically mentions that Vision is dead, and not just blipped.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2021
The first data ever transmitted over Arpanet, the precursor of the internet, blipped from a computer at the University of California, Los Angeles to one at the Stanford Research Institute in Palo Alto on Oct.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2019
We had almost made it back into the neighborhood, when lights flashed and a siren blipped behind us.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
Take “First Rodeo,” a sleek midtempo track with twangy guitars and blipping synths in which Ballerini extends a metaphor about getting back on the horse further than you’d think possible without breaking it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2024
Five police cars drove by, sirens blipping, and neighbors and friends drove by as well, holding signs of support.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 18, 2020
There’s a call for solidarity in “Reach Out,” another march: “The darkness is winning again,” Tucker sings, amid blipping synthesizers that hint at Tame Impala.
From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2019
United are "monitoring" the Aalesunds No1, presumably on a black and green radar screen making an irregular blipping noise.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2010
My monitors are blipping and chirping and two nurses are racing toward me.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
