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Dozens of the black and blue pillars have been sprayed since they began sprouting earlier this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Salah's signing will go down as the club's biggest as he joins former Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge and former Arsenal winger Nicolas Pepe in donning the claret and sky blue shirt.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

The sun on it, the salt, the particular blue no postcard has ever gotten right — it reconnects me to my own being, returns me to whatever I was before the world got complicated.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

“The heat doesn’t bother me much,” he said, unloading his bicycle — a blue and yellow 1989 Trek 400 — from the trunk of his car on a side street in Reseda.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

A guy among the group with a dark blue fedora replies, “Man, I’m going on down to the voting place with my best suit and my best strut. They ain’t even ready!”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Jeff Beck was captivated by the sound of American blues artists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

“You don’t improve your jazz in the studio. You’re in the studio because of the jazz and blues that you know,” Johnson said in one interview.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

A few months ago at the Pasadena City College Swap Meet, Whitley watched Saar pass stall after stall, ignoring all the wrong blues and reds, until something suddenly caught her attention.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

The water was a beautiful turquoise, a color it took Ivy at least thirty minutes to get right, mixing the blues and greens until it was perfect.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

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

Firstly, they are two to three times as bright as traditional halogens, and their "colour temperature" is bluer and whiter, which mimics natural daylight.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

These results challenge the long held idea that the earliest stars would produce explosions that were distinctly brighter or bluer than those seen today.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 28, 2025

Will more of them leave for bluer pastures now that the man in charge has made explicit that he crushes the reach of links?

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2024

Will saw its eyes; blue, deeper and bluer than any human eyes, a blue that burned like ice.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

Also on the letter was Ritchie Torres of New York’s 15th District, similarly one of the bluest districts in America; erstwhile Democratic presidential wannabe Dean Phillips of Minnesota; and California’s newest senator-to-be, Adam Schiff.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 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

Dust everywhere . . . and out of that emerged this beautiful boy with the bluest eyes I’d ever seen, holding his hand out to help me to my feet.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

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

Winchester Select Midnight The blued receiver carries extensive engraving, with gold-accented game birds on both sides and the bottom.

From Time Magazine Archive

Solid Design: Remington plans to offer the Genesis in the entire gamut of stainless and blued, plain and fluted versions, with numerous stock choices.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had on a starched shirt, blued and ironed flat.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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

Why do we run clothes through blueing water?

From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam

The blueing tends to counteract any yellow tinge in the clothes, making them appear whiter.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management by Ontario. Ministry of Education

Anyone in area suffering symptoms such as breathlessness, wheezing, or bluing of lips and fingers is advised to contact the NHS 111 helpline.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 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