blipvert
Britishnoun
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Origin of blipvert
C20: from blip + ( ad ) vert
Example Sentences
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Channel 23, where he works, has developed something called the blipvert, which compresses 30 seconds of commercial content into three seconds before anyone has the chance to change the channel.
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Indeed, when he discovers the blipvert’s effects, he is more excited by his journalistic scoop than horrified by the monstrous crime.
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In place of the blipvert as a sinister conduit for commercial projects, we face a firehose of disinformation meant to pave the way for the ugliest politics imaginable.
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The show was a stark and depressing portrayal of loneliness, captured in the blipvert victims’ relationships with their television screens.
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Trumpism, in this context, seems premised on the weaponization of information overload—call it the blipvert presidency.
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