blip
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But employees shouldn’t get too excited: Projected pay increases may seem more like a blip than a bump.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Volkswagen executives have repeatedly stressed the need for the company to slim down as collapsing sales in China have started to look less like a blip and more like a new normal.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Just a coincidental blip in the middle of a long season?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 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
“Big blip in Europe. Southern Italy. No shield.”
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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
Just four sets dropped across the entire tournament, with any perceived blips or wobbles not really worthy of the name.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 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
“Yes, only this time I read for E.T.! For E.T. the alien! That’s the crazy part. I did all these wacked-out lip trills and blips and blops.”
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
Fifteen-year, fixed rate mortgage rates blipped up to 2.42% from 2.39% last week; it was 2.28% a year ago.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
Both Sam and Bucky are among the populace that had been blipped out of existence five years ago and are suddenly without one of their closest friends — Captain America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 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
I am expecting full-throttle celebrity glamour — a gleaming glass structure, a state-of-the-art room with wall-to-wall equipment blipping and glowing like the inside of a spaceship.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2018
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
A hundred swallows darted between the gorge walls overhead, their shadows blipping across the shining water, across the children’s bodies and happy glistening faces.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
