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It appeared extremely blue and was producing X-rays.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

The band were also honoured with a blue plaque in the town in May 2025.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 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

They squeal with excitement and go over to the large blue bin full of small musical instruments, ranging from a xylophone to a tambourine.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

The color palette is dominated by greens, blues and violets toward the east, marking the sun’s rise, and reds, oranges and golds to the west.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

The Grammy-nominated band, which formed in Houston, is known for its edgy blues twang in popular singles including “La Grange” and “Tush” and across 15 studio albums.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Keep the post-World Cup blues at bay by watching these 15 international series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

His hair was thick and dark, and where it gleamed in the glavelight the glints were warm reds, not cool blues.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

A few days after the initial flash, it brightened again, shifted to bluer light, and showed hydrogen in its spectra.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2026

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

Will more of them leave for bluer pastures now that the man in charge has made explicit that he crushes the reach of links?

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 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

GameStop is the bluest of blue-chip meme stocks, the Apple or Nvidia of its little world.

From Slate ● May 13, 2024

“Anybody in our profession looks at the University of Kentucky in basketball and said, ‘that is the bluest of blue.’

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2024

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

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

Winchester Select Midnight The blued receiver carries extensive engraving, with gold-accented game birds on both sides and the bottom.

From Time Magazine Archive

She done out a tub of clothes on Monday, but she starched ’em afore they was wrenched, and blued a pink calico dress till I thought I should a died a laughin.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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 Ethel M. Mairet

"Ever known a case of a chap who's on the point of going under, blueing the last of his cash on one big dinner?"

From Men of Affairs by Roland Pertwee

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

“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