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Recent Examples of blue-sky
There’s no bad time to visit Costa Rica: Dry season (December to April) is best for those seeking blue-sky sunshine, but green season (May to November) brings better surf, southern-humpback-whale spotting, and lush foliage.
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Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Dec. 2025
Ford’s issue is the here and now, not a lack of blue-sky thinking.
—Mark Phelan, USA Today, 1 Oct. 2025
The Padres were winning on a beautiful blue-sky day.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2025
That leaves philanthropy: the most compelling alternative is for Gulf philanthropists to begin directing a larger proportion of their expenditure to blue-sky research that can have strategic value.
—Omar Al-Ubaydli, semafor.com, 16 July 2025
Organizations like Google Brain have thrived by giving teams autonomy to pursue blue-sky ideas, leading to breakthroughs such as Transformer models that revolutionized NLP.
—Melanie Hughes, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
This is, after all, a publication that was founded in the early ’90s, born of a desire to champion the subversive, disruptive advent of the internet—and the hackers, hustlers, and blue-sky lunatics consumed by the possibilities of a digitized and interconnected planet.
—Katie Drummond, Wired News, 19 May 2025
But the big reason your skin is more likely to burn has to do with all that fresh powder that skiers and snowboarders crave, especially on perfect, blue-sky days.
—Steven R. Fassnacht, The Conversation, 17 Feb. 2025
Straight ahead, the Pacific sparkled on the sunny, blue-sky Friday.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2025
Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Dec. 2025
Ford’s issue is the here and now, not a lack of blue-sky thinking.
—Mark Phelan, USA Today, 1 Oct. 2025
The Padres were winning on a beautiful blue-sky day.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2025
That leaves philanthropy: the most compelling alternative is for Gulf philanthropists to begin directing a larger proportion of their expenditure to blue-sky research that can have strategic value.
—Omar Al-Ubaydli, semafor.com, 16 July 2025
Organizations like Google Brain have thrived by giving teams autonomy to pursue blue-sky ideas, leading to breakthroughs such as Transformer models that revolutionized NLP.
—Melanie Hughes, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
This is, after all, a publication that was founded in the early ’90s, born of a desire to champion the subversive, disruptive advent of the internet—and the hackers, hustlers, and blue-sky lunatics consumed by the possibilities of a digitized and interconnected planet.
—Katie Drummond, Wired News, 19 May 2025
But the big reason your skin is more likely to burn has to do with all that fresh powder that skiers and snowboarders crave, especially on perfect, blue-sky days.
—Steven R. Fassnacht, The Conversation, 17 Feb. 2025
Straight ahead, the Pacific sparkled on the sunny, blue-sky Friday.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blue-sky
Adjective
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Urbano’s installations, radically utopian in this sense, re-create ideal spaces free from the spatiotemporal coordinates and rigid laws that govern our daily lives.—
Javier Montes,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
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This is a scrapbook of utopian folly, yes, but also an insider’s look at what was, for a time, the wildest workplace on Earth.—
Andrew Holter,
The Atlantic,
31 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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But, as idealistic and well-intentioned as Remmick might present himself, the vampire will nevertheless take with force what he's not given.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Jan. 2026
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Still, the idealistic Isaacson believes the book and that aspirational sentence have plenty to say.—
Stuart Miller,
Oc Register,
6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Nothing’s as sobering to an impractical but fun idea as having to foot the bill.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
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By increasing effective gravity, researchers can accelerate years or even decades of structural and geological stress into just a few hours, enabling experiments that would be impractical in the real world.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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But given the size and mass of an Orion spacecraft – ranging from 330 to 440,925 tons (300 to 400,000 metric tons) – the number of rockets this would require was unrealistic.—
Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Jan. 2026
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Republicans called the governor’s budget proposal unrealistic for other reasons.—
Andrew Graham,
Sacbee.com,
9 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The city’s storefront followers all saw the show as intense, non-linear, fanciful, Chicago-style experimentation with the de rigeur amount of nudity and a darkly comic soul, but no hope whatsoever of expanding its reach beyond the Midwest theatrical shoebox of its birth.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
9 Jan. 2026
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The chef’s kitchen sits just opposite a more casual bar, and a fanciful lighting fixture hangs over the dining table.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Some of you may have found that you were suddenly inspired — as if like a visionary — to take new paths to soar higher than ever before.—
Kyle Thomas,
PEOPLE,
4 Jan. 2026
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In 1921, while developing photographs for the visionary French fashion designer Paul Poiret, Man Ray accidentally made a photogram, in which objects are placed directly on photosensitive paper that is then exposed to light, creating a negative impression of the assemblage on the substrate.—
Ara H. Merjian,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Yet these touches are never extreme or imaginative or entertaining enough to match, say, the wild ride that was The Hunting Wives.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
8 Jan. 2026
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With a new season of The Masked Singer comes a new crop of imaginative costumes for the celebrity vocalists to disguise themselves in.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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While Paris is often framed as endlessly romantic, Wells says the day-to-day realities can be isolating.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
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Safe to say a breakup album is off the table, as the artist is back in her romantic era.—
Emily Kelleher,
InStyle,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Blue-sky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blue-sky. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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