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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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Josie made two solid, explosive passes at the convoy, but her bird could not avoid getting clipped by enemy fire.Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 8 Dec. 2024
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To maximize flowering, prune late blooming clematis hard in February by clipping vines back to the lowest set of flower buds.Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Dec. 2024
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By the end of 1977, the ranks of the guerrilla groups had been largely wiped out, but the dictatorship’s terror continued.Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
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Everything that made queerness revolutionary and radical has been wiped out.George Abraham, Them, 5 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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There’s no way to completely erase remote work—while companies may implement a complete return to office, ignoring the value many employees place on working from home means potentially losing great talent and sacrificing productivity.Liz Elting, Forbes, 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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This new chip enables the glasses to handle essential processing independently, obliterating latency as an issue, which is a really big deal.Charlie Fink, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Per Pro Football Reference, however, the Lions were favored by three points 70 years ago in the 1954 championship game against the Cleveland Browns … who obliterated the favorites by a score of 56-10.Ben Fawkes, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
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Exfoliating scrub: To exfoliate (remove dead skin cells), add sea salt and essential oil to rice water to make a scrub, rub it into your skin, and rinse it off. Masks: Soak cotton pads in rice water and apply them to your face for 15 minutes.Julie Marks, Verywell Health, 10 Dec. 2024
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When doing so, remove the plant from its pot and slice 1 inch deep into the bottom and sides of the rootball to free up the roots, then replant in a slightly larger container and backfill with a soilless potting mix.Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Dec. 2024
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There are tens of millions of people who live along a narrow stretch from Mexico’s Pacific Coast to eastern Canada, otherwise known as the path of totality, where locals and travelers gazed skyward to see the moon fully blot out the sun.Anna Furman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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The wait is long over until eclipse viewers have their only chance until 2044 to witness totality, the event in which the moon will completely block the sun's disc, blotting out the light and casting the world below in its uncanny shadow.American-Statesman staff, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024
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On this day in 1979: Scientists declared that smallpox had been eradicated about a dozen years after the World Health Organization intensified its vaccination push and prior requirements in many countries in the Americas and Europe.Mark Jones, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2024
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In the 1950s, an ambitious international campaign was launched to eradicate the insect in the north and center of the continent.Geraldine Castro, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Blip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blip. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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