blob
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"You could walk in the op center and see it. It was this big red blob that was just gobbling up terrain."
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
There’s a tiny blob of marshmallow stuck to his lip.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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
She makes a "smoothie" out of her fluffy yellow cream, rubbing blobs on the back of her hand and mixing it with a tinted moisturiser.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
My friends were skeptical as I placed the uneven, cinnamon-covered blobs in their palms.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026
This idea describes how hot, dense rock gradually detaches from the base of tectonic plates after continents split, behaving somewhat like blobs rising and falling in a lava lamp.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2025
All I see are gray blobs that look like used chewing gum.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
Over the previous 10 years of Test cricket, England's openers blobbed out 27 times in 121 matches, an average of one opener-duck per 4.5 Tests.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2021
If unable to find water, they blobbed, an entanglement that enabled them to survive out of water 10 times longer than individual 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
Bones put the tiny crimson speck between his slides, blobbed a drop of oil on top, and focussed the microscope.
From The Keepers of the King's Peace by Edgar Wallace
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
