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blob

[blob] / blɒb /


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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

Within minutes, sunlight transforms this material into an ionized gas shield that slows the oncoming massive blob of plasma.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

While worldwide sea surface temperatures have increased by 1C on average since 1900, the cold blob region has cooled by up to 0.9C, according to a 2019 study.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

The blob was earth-toned and splashed bestselling covers for years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

The colors have run together quite a bit, and Mango now looks more like a blob with eyes than a kitten.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

Seen with the naked eye from the stern of our 40-foot tour boat, the dark blobs bobbing in the restless sea didn’t look like much.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

The Na’vi, eco-warriors with hardbodied girlfriends, fight back along with assorted alien dinosaurs, whales, squids, plants and blobs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025

I avoided the gross meaty brown blobs and settled on a green blob, an orange blob, and a red blob.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez

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


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