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The experiments showed that the device could stimulate nerve cells using both blue and red light.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

The Venetian Resort, at the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, is already a surreal place—the interior includes an indoor St. Mark’s Square with chlorine-blue canals, old-timey lampposts, and a painted blue sky.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

"So this came completely out of the blue, off effectively an allegation which must have been either malicious or mistaken."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

“Appalachian people don’t trust the government for a lot of reasons,” said Kim Roney, a progressive member of the blue Asheville city council.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

She parks the car in front of a two-story pale blue house with white trim.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

"I was put me in the back of an ambulance and I remember hearing the blues and twos," he recalls.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Gone are the vivid blues and warm oranges and greens, crackling against film grain, that did so much heavy lifting for the first film’s leaden plot.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

Commissioned by the NSO and several other major American and European institutions as part of America’s 250th anniversary observance, “Liberty” continues Marsalis’s exploration of the familial relationships among jazz, classical, Afro-Latin and blues traditions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Blue Note Records released her breakthrough solo LP, 1993’s “Blue Light ‘Til Dawn,” a mix of originals and covers of work by blues pioneer Robert Johnson and folk singers Van Morrison and Joni Mitchell.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

“I know what they are,” Clayton’s mother sang flatly—but not in the flat notes that gave the blues its funk.

From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia

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

Because the dust blocked shorter, bluer wavelengths, the star’s appearance shifted dramatically toward red.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2025

Not everyone supports the flight to bluer skies.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 19, 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

He has blue eyes, bluer than I have ever seen.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

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

A week after Elon Musk acquired Silcon Valley's bluest white elephant, Twitter, the tech billionaire appears determined to live up to all the dark suspicions people harbor about him.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2022

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

The Tikka T3 Deluxe features a blued T3-barreled action in a high-grade walnut stock with classic three-point checkering, a rosewood forend tip and a grip cap with an antique silver-colored T3 medallion.

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

After that we drove in silence as the sky blued and the few big clouds showed their low gray bellies.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

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

From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2021

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

It also includes the finishing of these materials by the use of blueing, starch, and heated irons, to restore as far as possible their original appearance.

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

Boil for several minutes in order to cook the starch thoroughly; then add one pint of cold water and a small amount of blueing.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools 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