blue-sky
Example Sentences
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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
Some of this is blue-sky thinking about the future.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
When an intern tells a patient that he believes kindness is the best medicine, J.D. tersely interrupts his blue-sky meliorism with a cold splash of reality.
From Salon • Feb. 26, 2026
“This should put a capper, in our opinion, on blue-sky hopes for substantial multiple expansion,” he wrote.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026
I reach for a blue-sky pencil, but pick up midnight black instead.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
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