How to Use blip in a Sentence
- The approaching ship appeared as a blip on the screen.
- The company's financial problems were just a temporary blip.
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That’s a steady, year-over-year climb — not a blip.
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Ryan Brennan
march 12,
Kansas City Star,
12 Mar. 2026
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Is this shift part of a trend, or just a one-year blip?
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Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
5 Jan. 2026
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One phishing email might look like a blip.
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Tony Bradley,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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But there's a bit of a blip in the story.
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Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Was last week a blip or the start of a promising trend?
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Pete Sampson,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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In the long run, this will be little more than a blip.
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Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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Is this just a blip, or has the league figured him out?
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David Troy Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2026
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The wheels of motion are now in place to ride out those blips.
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George Ramsay,
CNN Money,
26 Aug. 2025
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Not small enough to be a blip on the map, a blink-and-you-miss-it town.
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Ryan Black,
The Courier-Journal,
23 Oct. 2022
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What if last season was a blip, not a sign of what’s to come?
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Fred Katz,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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This is just a blip on the radar and a time to grow and get better.
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Sportsday Staff,
Dallas Morning News,
18 Jan. 2026
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Is that merely a blip or a sign of him starting to age?
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Peter Baugh,
New York Times,
5 Jan. 2026
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But there are reasons to wonder whether the past year was a blip.
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David Leonhardt,
New York Times,
7 Sep. 2023
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The flying might just be a little one-foot blip off the ground.
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Benjamin Vanhoose,
Peoplemag,
28 Sep. 2022
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The flying might just be a little one-foot blip off the ground.
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Kelsie Gibson,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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This is a structural shift, not a cyclical blip.
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Jon Markman,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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Whether that proves to be a blip or a turning point remains to be seen.
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Steve Mollman,
Fortune,
9 Mar. 2024
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The trend is not a blip, the last decade has been the hottest years the planet has faced.
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Rachel Frazin,
The Hill,
14 Jan. 2026
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What appeared to be a turning point, though, turned out just to be a blip.
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Howard Fendrich,
BostonGlobe.com,
20 Jan. 2023
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Get it right, and 2025 becomes a blip on the radar.
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Kansas City Star,
10 Apr. 2026
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So is the tourist downturn a brief blip, or a worrying trend?
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Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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What Norvell has built has the look and feel of something more than a blip on the screen.
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Tom Layberger,
Forbes,
1 Jan. 2023
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The decline might be a blip in the data, one that could soon be reversed.
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Paige McGlauflin,
Fortune,
13 Sep. 2022
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Officials expect that to be a one-year blip.
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David Eckert,
Austin American Statesman,
11 Feb. 2026
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But for Kim and the detainees, what happened was more than a blip.
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Selina Wang,
ABC News,
10 Nov. 2025
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In horology years, that’s a blip; many maisons have been around for centuries.
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Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
8 Nov. 2025
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But their slip in efficiency can no longer be dismissed as a few blips.
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James Boyd,
New York Times,
1 Dec. 2025
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Martin does have a couple of blips on the game log recently as well.
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David Troy Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
16 June 2026
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Earlier this year, the transponders that will blip data back to Earth were found to be faulty and had to be repaired.
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Quanta Magazine,
3 Dec. 2021
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Fireflies blipped and burned out, and the cicadas joined in an incantation that crescendoed into an ancient whirr.
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Literary Hub,
15 Dec. 2025
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Again and again, followed by hard braking—courtesy of Wilwood—and a downshift or two after a bit of throttle blipping to rev match.
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Michael Van Runkle,
Forbes,
29 Feb. 2024
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Once upon a time, this decision would have been an 11th hour save—but in 2025 markets barely blipped.
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Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
12 Aug. 2025
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If emissions continue at their current trajectory, about one in twenty could blip out of existence.
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Jonathan Lambert,
NPR,
7 Dec. 2024
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But during the last stretch of descent on September 7, just a mile above the lunar surface, the probe blipped out of radio contact.
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Katherine J. Wu,
Smithsonian,
5 Dec. 2019
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The songs strutted and blipped like bubble gum pop grown colossal, carrying glum lyrics like trophies and building up to gleeful, overwhelming drum barrages.
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Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
18 June 2017
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The little black and white boxes that blip into view are telemetry blocks – an artifact from compressing the image and sending it back down to Earth.
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Mike Wehner,
BGR,
17 May 2021
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Peter’s new romantic rival, Brad Davis (Remy Hii), was still a lame tween when his current classmates blipped away.
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Sonia Rao,
Washington Post,
3 July 2019
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And as independent filmmakers blipped off the map, acting roles for women became few and far between, while producing and directing roles all but disappeared.
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Katherine J. Wu,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Apr. 2020
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says that inflation may blip up a bit, due to the economy’s reopening, then settle down.
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Larry Light,
Forbes,
15 May 2021
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And utilizing the paddle shifters delivers a pleasingly raucous note — blipping the throttle during downshifts — when set in the Sport+ setting of the Drive Mode Select knob.
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Arv Voss,
Houston Chronicle,
13 Dec. 2019
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Back to the Carrera T, and the latest 911 is fitted as standard with rear-wheel steering – this was an option on the previous T – along with a sports exhaust and a rev-matching function that blips the engine between downshifts.
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Alistair Charlton,
Forbes,
30 Oct. 2024
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The package will only be available on GT coupes and convertibles equipped with six-speed manual transmissions, which get a rev-matching function for 2019 that smooths gear changes by automatically blipping the throttle on downshifts.
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Fox News,
12 Mar. 2018
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