noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
temporary
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The tiny athlete believes her rare lapse in Tokyo was just a temporary blip in a career of major championship success.
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Again, we must focus on structural, ongoing deficits, rather than temporary blips that naturally accompany recessions.
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You will recognise them for no more or less than temporary blips on a radar screen of satisfaction.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Except for the blip this month, unemployment has continued to fall this year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A dozen flying machines and their pilots would be no more than a blip on a piece of magnetic tape.
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Conference-goers, though, brushed aside the news as a blip on the political radar screen.
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Most significant for Ipswich, though, is that they seem to have come out of their winter blip relatively unscathed.
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Perhaps the increase in inflation in recent months is merely a blip ?
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Some scholars say it will be regarded as only the slightest of blips on the radar screen of history.