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
Studies suggest the cold blob influences atmospheric circulation by altering the path and speed of the jet stream that flows west to east across the continent.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
The blob was earth-toned and splashed bestselling covers for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
We are no longer talking about individual law enforcement agencies, but rather a giant, singular blob.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2026
When the food came, Felix accidentally dropped a small blob of ketchup on one page.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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“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
My friends were skeptical as I placed the uneven, cinnamon-covered blobs in their palms.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026
This phenomenon involves cooler, heavier blobs of plasma that condense high above the Sun's surface and then plunge back down.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025
The next day, he texted me a time and date with a drawing of what looked like giant floating lava-lamp blobs with two pairs of little feet sticking out from underneath.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025
All he saw were blobs of white mist, but he guessed that to Annabeth he looked like a corpse.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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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
The bar of the back-sight was heavily blobbed with dew; the foresight was invisible.
From Traffics and Discoveries by Kipling, Rudyard
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
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