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In a sea of glamorous gowns and tuxedoes, Hacks star Megan Stalter, who was nominated for best comedy supporting actress, arrived on the Emmys blue carpet gilded as an Emmy statuette.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

I can still remember how blue the skies in California seemed during that brief interlude.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

“Now we have this bright blue track to get in shape,” Gonzalez, a student council member, said recently.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Using observations of Venus together with radiative-transfer modeling, the scientists estimated how strongly the liquid inside the planet's cloud droplets would need to absorb ultraviolet and blue light to match what spacecraft and telescopes observe.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

Nollie’s blue sweater beneath Betsie’s dress was black with newsprint.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

She doesn’t imitate being the mother of the blues, as her character is known.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

He is joined by other musicians including Camper Van Beethoven lead singer David Lowery, blues musician Guy Forsyth and saxophonist Eduardo Calle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

To simplify her cooking routine, Jessica Furseth looked back at her childhood kitchen—and found a solution to the weeknight dinner blues.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026

On the floor, a rag rug in blues and reds.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

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

Not everyone supports the flight to bluer skies.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 19, 2024

I’d hate to think there was anybody around with bluer eyes than yours.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

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

Back in 1969, Perry Como had a hit song called “Seattle” that included the lyrics “the bluest skies you’ve ever seen in Seattle.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2023

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

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The afternoon air thickened and blued with gasoline fumes.

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

All the operations thus far have had for their object the weighting of the silk, although the blueing and the catechu baths have some influence on the finished result.

From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by William H. (William Henry) Dooley

When they got two dollars’ worth sold, the blueing company would send them a big doll; so, please, would we buy a lot?

From Letters on an Elk Hunt by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

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