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Recent Examples of bloodred
The landers will also be there during a total lunar eclipse, as seen from Earth, as the moon passes through our planet’s shadow and gains a bloodred glow on the night of March 13 and the early morning of March 14.
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Gayoung Lee, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2025
In Viñales, limestone knolls, or mogotes, emerge from the valley's bloodred earth like upturned loaves.
—Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2024
As for her beauty look, Pugh opted for a soft smoky glam with subtle cat eyeliner, a pink lip, and a bloodred manicure.
—Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Mar. 2023
This Surrealist look comes courtesy of Bronson van Wyck, who bucked tradition with a bloodred tree, a circus tent enclosure, and a saintly topper.
—Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 14 Dec. 2022
Nancy Reagan stood by in her bloodred dresses, red as an AIDS ribbon, red as gore.
—Grant Sutton, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
Wildfires burning along the M25, the main highway surrounding London, suggest otherwise; the same is true of the extreme-heat warnings, 100-degree temperature, and bloodred weather maps.
—Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 19 July 2022
This flare was both preceded and followed by incredible bloodred auroral displays that engulfed the planet from the poles to the tropics.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2012
Gayoung Lee, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2025
In Viñales, limestone knolls, or mogotes, emerge from the valley's bloodred earth like upturned loaves.
—Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2024
As for her beauty look, Pugh opted for a soft smoky glam with subtle cat eyeliner, a pink lip, and a bloodred manicure.
—Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Mar. 2023
This Surrealist look comes courtesy of Bronson van Wyck, who bucked tradition with a bloodred tree, a circus tent enclosure, and a saintly topper.
—Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 14 Dec. 2022
Nancy Reagan stood by in her bloodred dresses, red as an AIDS ribbon, red as gore.
—Grant Sutton, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
Wildfires burning along the M25, the main highway surrounding London, suggest otherwise; the same is true of the extreme-heat warnings, 100-degree temperature, and bloodred weather maps.
—Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 19 July 2022
This flare was both preceded and followed by incredible bloodred auroral displays that engulfed the planet from the poles to the tropics.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2012
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodred
Adjective
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The town square feels especially cozy under a crimson and gold canopy.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
15 Oct. 2025
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Joy Behar called out The View cohost Ana Navarro's crimson getup at the Hot Topics table.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The ticks are small when unfed, the size of a sesame seed or smaller, per the USDA, and are a light reddish-tan to a dark reddish color with dark brown markings.—
Chad Murphy,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
14 Oct. 2025
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Yellow, orange and reddish leaves can already be seen in the Northeast, the Northwest and some central portions of the country.—
Humberto Basilio,
Scientific American,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But if you too have been mesmerized by the Belle Époque aesthetics of recent video games like Lies of P and Clair Obscur, Halloween is the perfect opportunity to put on a red beret and parry with the best of them.—
James Factora,
Them.,
17 Oct. 2025
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On the Democratic side of the race, four candidates are now vying for the party's nomination, with hopes of flipping the seat from red to blue.—
Hannah Pinski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The viral TikTok dance sensation inspired by Wednesday star Jenny Ortega’s quirky moves that is set to the sanguineous 2011 Lady Gaga song has blown up so big that even Mother Monster couldn’t resist throwing her black veil into the ring.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
9 Dec. 2022
Adjective
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The Institute of Agriculture notes that there are a few hummingbirds that surface between November and late March in Tennessee and other Southern states, but these birds are not typically ruby-throat hummingbirds.—
Jordan Green,
Nashville Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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The company’s new Aura glasses ($385) change from cool blue to purple, ruby, and even crystal clear with the tap of a finger.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA TODAY,
13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The colors are too much for words: imperial purple, incarnadine orange, gold.—
Ben Huberman,
Longreads,
8 Sep. 2017
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“Bloodred.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodred. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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