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There wasn’t a tag or barcode, but when the bride-to-be took a closer look at the dress, she saw embroidered in light blue thread was “Heidi and Jake May 19, 2007.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

The pale blue dots on Florida’s election map tell the story.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

But the uncounted votes seem to be in blue parts of the state, so Peltola appears likely to end up in the lead.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

He said his new bike’s red, white and blue paint job appealed to his sense of patriotism, while its $16,000 sticker price was modest by Harley standards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

The cerulean blue of Peace fell away next.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

The prehistory of rock ‘n’ roll is full of names who might have become stars if they were gifted with his baby blues or discovered by a relentless schemer on the level Col.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Side 2 launches with “Sunspot Baby,” a honky-tonk blues centered on a duplicitous girlfriend who bails on the protagonist, leaving him with a maxed-out credit card.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Alongside her husband, she went to try to find her son and was passed by two police cars "with blues and twos on".

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Anderson was the most veteran member of Rose Tattoo, a hard rock and blues band that formed in Sydney in 1976.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

He looks more like a blues musician than a government employee.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

That extra mass essentially gave them a second lease on life, making them hotter, brighter, and bluer even though they are actually just as old as their neighboring stars.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

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

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

And he had the bluest eyes she’d ever seen, bluer even than Aaron’s.

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen

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

The Rainbow Race, Latinos from the blackest of black to the bluest eyes and blondest hair, all splashing their multihued complexion at the edge of Central Park.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The room blued into view, and I wondered where the night had gone.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

Fill another test tube to the brim with water, colored with a little blueing.

From Common Science by John W. (John Woodside) Ritchie

Fill a glass with water and color it with a little blueing or red ink.

From Common Science by John W. (John Woodside) Ritchie

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