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Zips were used to modulate the length of skirts, they ran across leather jackets and down a flared blue pair of trousers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

Hilton arrived like he was ready to party in Hermosa Beach, in a black open-collar shirt that was either seersucker or unironed, dark blue slacks and white Adidas with orange ombre stripes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Notice what this means for our hypothetical investor with a stock portfolio holding the DJIA’s blue chip stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

"There was such excitement around the whole of Whitley Bay - every shop had things in the windows, the blue and white stripes," says one of the volunteers, Jenn Robinson.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The cerulean blue of Peace fell away next.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Along Fostoria’s Drummond Street, these homes’ front porches become stages for local and regional musicians playing folk, blues, country, Americana, rock and acoustic music.

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

The deep scarlet turns into a mild mix of blues, greens, and yellow.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

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

The water became bluer, darker, as the tub filled higher.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

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

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

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

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

It was a windy, sunny day in March, and great white clouds billowed in a clear sky—like clean clothes in a tub of blueing, Mary Ellen had said.

From Explorers of the Dawn by Christopher Morley

Greens may be obtained by dyeing with any of the yellow dyes and blueing in the Indigo Vat or with Indigo Extract.

From Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer by Ethel M. Mairet

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