blue
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This theme continues in the bathrooms, which are all different colors, including yellow and blue.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
So-called blue laws—intended to mandate a day of rest, including worship—were once quite common.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
A five-second penalty for ignoring blue flags compounded an afternoon spent near the back of the field.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
A single tree can weigh as much as 15 blue whales and survive for more than 3,000 years.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
The mustached man, his eyes pale blue, rubs his jaw.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
She described the large seascape in its unforgettable blues, the watercolors of trees, the misty quality of the skies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Symbols that the pioneering assemblage artist has been “remixing” for more than seven decades — stars, moons, eyes, hands — emerge in vibrant washes of magenta, teal and her favored crepuscular blues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Recorded in just three days, this album of blues covers sizzles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
There were some more positive voices, including Variety's Owen Gleiberman, external, who said it "escapes the remake blues - in fact it soars above them".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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
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
Not everyone supports the flight to bluer skies.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 19, 2024
Suppose there are two people with bluer eyes?
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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
The Rainbow Race, Latinos from the blackest of black to the bluest eyes and blondest hair, all splashing their multihued complexion at the edge of Central Park.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
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
The Tikka T3 Deluxe features a blued T3-barreled action in a high-grade walnut stock with classic three-point checkering, a rosewood forend tip and a grip cap with an antique silver-colored T3 medallion.
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
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 Mairet, Ethel M.
They are to be washed a third time in a stronger soap liquor, made hot and tinged with blueing, and rinsed in clean water.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849
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
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