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blip

[blip] / blɪp /
NOUN
minor shock
Synonyms


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It was a kind of symbol for his new mantra after the blip: “have the hard conversations.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Wilson, who was born in Waco, Texas, and spent his career from the late 1960s on in New York, has hardly been more than a blip in his own country during the last decade.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

What is happening at Stars and Stripes is not a mere controversy of the day or week, or a blip in the attention economy and 24-hour news cycle.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

That is lower than previously projected as the ONS now treats the post Brexit immigration peak as a "blip" rather than an ongoing trend, said Dr Madeleine Sumption, of Oxford University's Migration Observatory.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

I couldn’t hear it, but I saw a fire truck race by the store, a yellow blip, and disappear.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings




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