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
Another paper published in 2023 ran computer simulations -- with and without the cold blob -- to see if the anomaly had an influence on European heatwaves.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
That had to be a whiff of flop-sweat from the Atlanta 1996 games’ blue blob mascot, something like an anthropomorphized teardrop, originally named Whatizit for the obvious reaction it generated, and later just Izzy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
We are no longer talking about individual law enforcement agencies, but rather a giant, singular blob.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2026
A little blob of ink marred the white page opposite, as though the writer, in impatience, had shaken her pen to make the ink flow freely.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
The orange blobs are mushroom-like "fruiting bodies" while the rest of the fungus is underground.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
“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
On a screen, they saw a series of colorful, balloon-like blobs.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2025
"The bad photos are so funny - there are some amazing blobs of humans there."
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025
They used to see blurs and blobs and now they see colors.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
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
Here the fresh westerlies forsook us and we bobbed and blobbed about in doldrummy weather for many days.
From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London
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
