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blue-sky

[bloo-skahy] / ˈbluˈskaɪ /












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For hours on a crisp, blue-sky day, kite flyers mingled with sign-wavers, sharing space on the National Mall as they pursued their dueling missions.

From Barron's • Mar. 28, 2026

Williams and other physicists worry the physics budget has been cut because a reorganisation in the system of funding science has shifted money away from blue-sky to applied research.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

“This should put a capper, in our opinion, on blue-sky hopes for substantial multiple expansion,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026

Strauss, a financier in the 1920s of the city’s skyline, summed up the blue-sky optimism: “New York cannot be held back in her growth and development as the supreme city in the world.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025

I even got that blue-sky feeling by the end.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee




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