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Recent Examples of blue-water
Adjective
Still, the rather conventional yacht with a tasteful but not outlandish interior, has a serious hull that is designed for serious blue-water voyaging.—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
Instead of setting up a spot on the sand, beachgoers typically pitch their chairs in the shallow clear blue water and laze the day away.—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025 Jewel's photo carousel also featured a pic of her in a navy blue bikini while standing on a dock in front of crystal-blue water.—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blue-water
For Mateus, as for filmmakers in her personal pantheon, conflicts at hand stem inextricably from local and national history and also from oceanic depths of experience, too easily dismissed as folklore, from which individual identity and group identification emerge.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 Oct. 2025
At the time, little was known about the sneaker, including its oceanic inspiration.
The findings were made during a 2022 deep-sea expedition in the Gascoyne Marine Park aboard CSIRO’s research vessel, the RV Investigator, according to Australian outlet ABC.
People pour in from the dense warrens of India’s financial capital and from dusty villages thousands of kilometers away, all flowing towards the fortified, sea-facing Mumbai home of actor Shah Rukh Khan.
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Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
On Friday, North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the sea off its east coast, sparking condemnation from Seoul.
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