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It embeds a photo of Queen Camilla and the prime minister's wife Marie-France van Heel visiting a school in Antigua, both of whom are wearing different shades of blue.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 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

But on this night, Raman and blue America would dance.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

Rue and I look at the screen together; the letters and numbers in the link are in bright blue, waiting impatiently for us to click.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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

The band kicked off with a blues number called “Got My Mojo Working,” then it was Ben E. King’s “Stand by Me” followed by Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

It wasn’t the music of the blues clubs.

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

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

Not everyone supports the flight to bluer skies.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 19, 2024

One was of a blue ocean against an even bluer sky in the first room.

From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani

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

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 crying girl on the trolley, the sad boy at the Carutherses’ mansion, the happy old man out back who cast the bluest light.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

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 afternoon air thickened and blued with gasoline fumes.

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

From the standpoint of a stationary observer, light reflected off you is reddened as you depart and blued as you return.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

Two wash-forms are needed; one for the two tubs in which to put the suds, and the other for blueing and starching-tubs.

From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Catharine Esther Beecher

The soap should be thoroughly rinsed from the linen before the blueing is put in the washer.

From Guide to Hotel Housekeeping by Mary E. Palmer

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

“But what a lot of work to boil the clothes in the large pots with the bluing powder.”

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar