blue blood

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Before his senior year, he could become the centerpiece of a feverish bidding war between blue blood programs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

It was Brown, a Rhode Island blue blood whose name now adorns an Ivy League university, who in 1790 financed Slater’s stolen ideas for a state-of-the-art cotton mill.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

In the brave new world of college football, blue blood means nothing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

The baseball world is sensing a Dodger vulnerability, as if there’s blue blood in the water.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2025

And if we take a step down to Duchesses, Marchionesses, &c., we shall find that blue blood is usually associated with a taste for true British domesticity.

From A Word to Women by Humphry, Mrs. C. E.