out of the blue
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“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
None of this came out of the blue.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
How you have your retirement funds allocated between traditional and Roth accounts is not something that comes out of the blue.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
Recent models of the artificial-intelligence chatbot have been bringing up the creatures in conversations with users seemingly out of the blue, as well as gremlins, trolls and ogres.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Instead, she said to me out of the blue, “You don’t get much mothering, do you?”
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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