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ARE YOU A TRUE BLUE CHAMPION OF THESE "BLUE" SYNONYMS?

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Which of the following words describes “sky blue”?

navy

beryl

azure

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How to use what in the world in a sentence

France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
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The world that Black Dynamite lives in is not the most PC place to be in.
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Have a look at this telling research from Pew on blasphemy and apostasy laws around the world.
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Allegations of transphobia are not new in the world of gay online dating.
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People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.
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Descending the Alps to the east or south into Piedmont, a new world lies around and before you.
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All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
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There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
That it is a reasonable and proper thing to ask our statesmen and politicians: what is going to happen to the world?
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock