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It appeared extremely blue and was producing X-rays.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

There was an apparent colour clash with Bayer Leverkusen's away kit, which is mint with a blue pattern, so Newcastle players put on their lilac third strip instead.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Particularly revealing are the blue columns, which show what your return would have been if you missed both the indicated number of best days and that same number of worst days.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

Now, a parade of mining companies hoping to ride the boom are trying to grab attention by wrapping themselves in red, white and blue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

“Wado,” said Ruth, handing Maggie a ribbon of blue raffle tickets.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

Last week, the blues rock band canceled its Hollywood Bowl concert because longtime drummer Frank Beard had health issues, Rolling Stone first reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

A full-page illustration from a 13th-century manuscript is resplendent with lovely reds, greens and blues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

“You don’t improve your jazz in the studio. You’re in the studio because of the jazz and blues that you know,” Johnson said in one interview.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The Bluesmen agreed that they could sure use a man on blues harp.

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

Not everyone supports the flight to bluer skies.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 19, 2024

In Oberlin, the day was supposed to start out cloudy, with bluer skies peeking through as the day went on and a front passed through.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2024

At dawn, the light changes colour rapidly from a dark blue to a brighter yellow or neutral hue; at dusk, it changes in the opposite direction, becoming bluer as it darkens.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 2024

Then, over the summer, he got contact lenses, and I noticed his eyes were bluer than the swimming pool his parents built for Carver School.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

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

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

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

The afternoon air thickened and blued with gasoline fumes.

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

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

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

Last week when they have tableaux, Patty has borrowed it and has dyed it with blueing to make a beard for Bluebeard.

From Just Patty by C. M. (Charles Mark) Relyea

One reason that linen gets that dirty brown color is because it has not been properly rinsed before adding the blueing.

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