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Working under the bridge's blue lights, dozens of Taiwanese army combat engineers assisted by cranes and trucks set up layers of concrete and steel barriers, barbed wire and Hesco walls along the nearly one-kilometre-long bridge.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Dressed in a blue shirt and wearing sunglasses, Glitter appeared by video link from His Majesty's Prison Channings Wood for the 11-minute hearing.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

That’s what came with the “Los Angeles” scrawled across the chest of his new blue jersey.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

“If we take a bite of that apple of knowledge, is that what’s going to kick us out of this blue marble of Eden … that we call Earth?”

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

He’s sitting at the table, and his blue-framed glasses come complete with matching blue straps.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Keep the post-World Cup blues at bay by watching these 15 international series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

This watershed boxed set features cutting-edge remasters of the singer’s 1920s recordings, substantiating her centrality in blues and beyond.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

She described the large seascape in its unforgettable blues, the watercolors of trees, the misty quality of the skies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

Their music was a blend of blues rock and hard rock with elements of cabaret.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

It was a blue so blue that it made all other blues look like they had been only the practice for this one shining sky.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

One entry describes begonia as “a deep pink that is bluer, lighter, and stronger than average coral . . . and bluer and stronger than sweet william—called also gaiety.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Not everyone supports the flight to bluer skies.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 19, 2024

When the star moves toward a telescope, its visible light turns slightly bluer; when it moves away from us, the light shifts slightly redder.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

In Oberlin, the day was supposed to start out cloudy, with bluer skies peeking through as the day went on and a front passed through.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2024

It’s bluer, bigger, more turbulent than I’d imagined.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

Once the bluest of blue-chip stocks, IBM’s biggest-ever decline on Tuesday following a profit warning did little to rattle investors focused on a dip in inflation and on AI winners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

His research is the bluest of blue-sky: he uses quantum computers to predict how sub-atomic particles behave.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026

GameStop is the bluest of blue-chip meme stocks, the Apple or Nvidia of its little world.

From Slate ● May 13, 2024

She cries, "You swore that you loved me, but where were the clues? I died on the altar waiting for the proof. You sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest day."

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024

I would fish where the water was deepest, strangest, bluest on clear days and blackest on the cloudy days.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

As we talked, the greens blued into ultramarine or yellowed into chartreuse.

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022

Facebook is the classic example of how the individual investor can get screwed, blued and tattooed.

From Forbes ● Sep. 1, 2012

The afternoon air thickened and blued with gasoline fumes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its blued receiver carries extensive engraving, with gold-accented game birds on both sides and the bottom.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the standpoint of a stationary observer, light reflected off you is reddened as you depart and blued as you return.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Wash blue, or blueing, is a laundry product with iron powder and just a hint of blue dye.

From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2021

This circumstance has led Sociologists Peter and Brigitte Berger to suggest that if what Charles Reich calls "the greening of America" goes on apace, it may shade into a "blueing of America."

From Time Magazine Archive

The Glen Alden Coal Co. of Buffalo and Rochester, N. Y., has made the last wash a blueing process.

From Time Magazine Archive

Silver butt-plates, silver lion-masque butt-caps, much of original blueing remains.

From A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" by Shoemaker, Henry W.

He passed the place where the blue violets were growing in the green moss—the same violets he had used to make Nurse Jane's blueing water for her clothes the other day, as I told you.

From Uncle Wiggily in the Woods by Garis, Howard Roger

The colour actually comes from a process that starts with boiling water and grinding laundry bluing cubes, which are usually used to wash white clothes.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2024

Although Castle made works with color, utilizing a variety of materials that include laundry bluing, watercolor, crayon and even colored ink leached from magazine pages, these are black soot-and-spit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023

Some on Reddit fixed this by sanding theirs down to take the shine off of the finish, and another recommended using an acrylic topcoat and another chemical bluing.

From The Verge ● Mar. 9, 2022

When a congressional seat opened up in a bluing stretch of Phoenix’s eastern suburbs, Sinema ran and won.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2021

High above the library’s stained-glass windows and soaring neo-Gothic spires, screeching seagulls whirled in white loops against the slowly bluing sky.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown