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Ever since Timothée Chalamet blipped onto the greater public’s radar with Call Me by Your Name in 2017, the young actor has proven to be versatile, charismatic, remarkably unselfconscious, and able to both amplify and weaponize his attractiveness (see: Lady Bird or, better yet, Bones and All).
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
In Avengers: Infinity War, he got blipped (snapped? dusted?) with half of the world’s population after Thanos gained all six Infinity Stones.
—Time, 22 June 2023
Shake that features a shimmery, blipping pop backdrop.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023
With a Final Four berth on the line, Gallegos viewed a patchy livestream of the taut Aztecs-Creighton game … until the screen blipped out.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
In Avengers: Infinity War, he got blipped (snapped? dusted?) with half of the world’s population after Thanos gained all six Infinity Stones.
—Time, 22 June 2023
Shake that features a shimmery, blipping pop backdrop.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023
With a Final Four berth on the line, Gallegos viewed a patchy livestream of the taut Aztecs-Creighton game … until the screen blipped out.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
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Incoming Falling Back Under North Korean Assault, A Ukrainian Brigade Turned A River Into A Natural Barrier FBI Warns Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail Users—Check 3 Things To Stop Attacks Fallacy #3: The owner can just clip coupons.Joshua Stein, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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The next storm will clip far northwest Washington on Thursday night, with the third atmospheric river hitting the West Coast from the San Francisco Bay area northward through Washington on Sunday night into Monday.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
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The film tells the story of a young apprentice hunter and her father who journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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The rapacious killers can wipe out an entire bee colony within hours.Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
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One dud doesn’t erase the good performances Young has put on tape over the past month.Joseph Person, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
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In August, the Taliban published vice laws that ban women’s voices and bare faces in public in an effort to completely erase Afghan women and girls from public life.Brian Cheng, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
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The compact white bots with little orange flags and vaguely tortoise-like bodies will bleep-bloop food from participating businesses to locations within a small urban radius.Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 14 Oct. 2022
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International broadcasters get their own raw feed of the ceremony and must decide on their own whether to bleep — which is why unbleeped video from other countries soon appeared on social media, showcasing what really happened.Michael Schneider, Variety, 28 Mar. 2022
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The Philippines' Institute of Volcanology and Seismology reported that the eruption triggered a pyroclastic density current—a scorching flow of ash, debris, and rocks capable of obliterating everything in its path.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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But the Knicks obliterated that number, scoring 97 points by the third quarter and cruising to a statement victory.Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 4 Dec. 2024
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The cover is sturdy and hardly noticeable, so the cleaning staff will likely not remove it.Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2024
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While that’s something most would strive to remove, Förderer decided to add an extra row of movie lights to ramp up the frequency.Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 21 Dec. 2024
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Millions of Americans, from southern Texas to northern Maine were in the path of totality where the moon completely blots out the sun.Visual Editors, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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Brian Thompson, a literal human being, has been blotted out by his symbolic role as the head of UnitedHealthcare.Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 13 Dec. 2024
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Individual errors cannot be eradicated entirely, but must be reduced.Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
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Smallpox was eradicated worldwide in 1980, but stocks of the virus still exist in U.S. and Russian biocontainment facilities.Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Blip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blip. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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