blue

Fans have known them in blue for entire days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

Smoke particles scattered even more of the remaining blue wavelengths, intensifying the golden tones in the visible light surrounding the eclipsed Sun.

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

In the distance, thick clouds, their undersides an angry shade of dark, are swallowing up the blue sky, and the breeze carries the humid scent of the coming rain.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 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

The color palette is dominated by greens, blues and violets toward the east, marking the sun’s rise, and reds, oranges and golds to the west.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

There was the same iron bedstead, and the quilt was multicolored, faded but still cheerful with reds and blues and greens and yellows.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

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

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

When the star moves toward a telescope, its visible light turns slightly bluer; when it moves away from us, the light shifts slightly redder.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

He’s a little lighter-skinned and taller with bluer eyes than I got.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2023

My eyes open to the bluest eyes hovering above me.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

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

After that we drove in silence as the sky blued and the few big clouds showed their low gray bellies.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

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

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

This is the result of the use of blueing and soap, where the clothes have been imperfectly rinsed.

From Public School Domestic Science by Adelaide Hoodless

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