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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blue-sky
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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.—
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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.—
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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.—
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Still, the idealistic Isaacson believes the book and that aspirational sentence have plenty to say.—
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The designer is based in the Colorado mountains, making outdoor projects impractical during winter.—
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Practical gifts can still feel romantic There’s a misconception that Valentine’s Day requires something impractical, something purely decorative or indulgent.—
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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.—
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Republicans called the governor’s budget proposal unrealistic for other reasons.—
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For a nostalgia-stirring vacation with friends, Sarasota—a fanciful town on Florida’s scenic Suncoast—has easy appeal for everyone.—
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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.—
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But most of its richest pleasures come down to Fiennes going balls to the wall with a truly memorable character — half lunatic and half visionary.—
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The Semafor World Economy Global Advisory Board is a group of visionary business leaders helping Semafor shape its new platform that empowers global CEOs to navigate extraordinary complexity through the expert curation of profound insights, ideas, and diverse perspectives.—
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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.—
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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.—
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While Paris is often framed as endlessly romantic, Wells says the day-to-day realities can be isolating.—
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Safe to say a breakup album is off the table, as the artist is back in her romantic era.—
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“Blue-sky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blue-sky. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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