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The two of them live on-site in what looks like a family home straight out of a 1990s Disney film, a white colonial home with blue shutters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Along that longer path, molecules in the air scatter shorter wavelengths of visible light, especially blue.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

The department had previously released images and video of the suspect wearing a white mask, a blue backpack and black clothing to try to identify the man.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

"The blue face Leicester fleece, which is our closest to the merino, that will go into knitwear like men's suits."

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Lines straightened, hands were clamped to sides, whispers ceased as those cold blue eyes swept across us.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Throughout this year, the entire country seems to have been afflicted with the weather-app blues.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

Through subtle harmonic shifts on “Crepuscule With Nellie,” perhaps Monk’s loveliest melody, he accentuates the song’s inherent connection to blues and church hymns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Born in Frankston, Texas in 1949, Beard joined ZZ Top in 1969 and followed the three-man band's progression from heavy blues to its experimental synthesizer sound of the 1980s.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Researchers have found that, more often than not, the end-of-summer blues lead to stock market weakness.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

Vincent thinks the painting should be framed in a flat, bright orange; that will look good with the blues of the background and the dark green of the trees.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

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

GameStop is the bluest of blue-chip meme stocks, the Apple or Nvidia of its little world.

From Slate ● May 13, 2024

The Fontainebleau is the tallest, newest and bluest hotel in southern Nevada’s glittery resort corridor.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

The sky was at its bluest and seemed to curve down and join with the ocean in the distance.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

She done out a tub of clothes on Monday, but she starched ’em afore they was wrenched, and blued a pink calico dress till I thought I should a died a laughin.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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

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

Note.—Sufficient blueing should be used to make the blueing water a pale sky-blue colour when a little of it is lifted in the hand.

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