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Unlike Luca’s freestanding work, however, Andrea’s is a relief—the characteristic white figures against a blue background.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Lee, resplendent in a bright orange and blue pinstriped suit with matching hat, stood from his front-row seat, seemingly serving as conciliator.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Anya said in English, before the girls joined classmates playing with a huge red, yellow and blue balloon.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Instead of appearing orange, white, or blue, some of these stars develop entirely different hues.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

A pile of clothes was heaped outside in the hallway; on top lay Nollie’s blue sweater.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The line that stood out: “We’ve got the blues on the run.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Acts can span from bluegrass to blues, folk to funk, salsa to soul, and everything in between.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The right map above illustrates that shift, with lighter reds and blues showing much smaller rates of change during that decade.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

"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

But they’re not the soft blues of robins’ eggs or the deep navy of natural indigo.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

A few days after the initial flash, it brightened again, shifted to bluer light, and showed hydrogen in its spectra.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 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

Shadows bloomed across the walls and multiplied in the stairwells, and as the light died it got bluer, painting everything around me a deep-sea cobalt.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

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

As Perry Como sang, “The bluest skies you’ve ever seen in Seattle.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 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

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

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

"Just as we put blueing in clothes," Theo ventured.

From The Story of Porcelain by Sara Ware Bassett

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

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

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