blip
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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
In the vast stretch of world history, 250 years is a blip, a flash, a blink of the eye.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
A little over a year ago he was just a faint blip on coach Mauricio Pochettino’s radar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
The high volatility during Tuesday’s trading session could wind up being a momentary blip as the hardware-infrastructure buildup to support generative artificial intelligence continues.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
"My daughter's been responsible for setting a few unnatural beauty trends among the younger courtiers. That terrible blip with the sea-blue skin tone, and the trend where courtiers matched their teacup pets."
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
But, judging by the evidence of the first two days, it does not feel like there will be any blips.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
"For a long time, no one knew quite what to make of these oddball little blips of dimming," Bouma said.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026
Three others crowded into the darkened shack offering advice and helping spot blips on the screen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
They were all eight or ten feet tall, and full of not just wires and cables and motherboards, but also random blips of light flashing on and off.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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
He spent a couple years just chilling until the MCU caught up with him in Infinity War, where he fought against Thanos until getting blipped.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 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
He blipped on the radar of security services in early 2015, when he made his first failed bid to reach Syria.
From Reuters ● Jul. 29, 2016
The static blipped and focused as the stations turned.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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
In “Year of Sky,” blipping synthesizers evolve into Philip Glass-style organ arpeggios as Hval — in her highest, most childlike register — strives to perceive both the minute insect realm and the expanding universe.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2022
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
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
And then, in a surprise blipping, Mrs. Pomodoro begins speaking in zoomzoomzoom Italian to Signora Divino, who is so shockfulled that she has to sit down on the stone wall.
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
