out of the blue
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He observes these things as if they just came out of the blue.
From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2026
But "out of the blue" a call came in from someone Marinker had worked with closely in the past - Dave Wybrow, the director of the Cockpit Theatre in London.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Disruptions can come out of the blue: a ransomware attack crippled one Treasury dealer in 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
“After two years, someone called me out of the blue and told me I’d got a record deal on the same label as Elvis,” she recalled to the Guardian.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
After a four-minute interval, he posed to them the same question, seemingly out of the blue: Which car do you want?
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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