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When circulation worsens, blood flow and oxygen decrease, causing the skin to become discolored and often appearing pale, bluish, or gray.4
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Jane Kim, Verywell Health, 26 Feb. 2025
When someone overdoses from fentanyl, breathing slows and their skin often turns a bluish hue.
—Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
Capable of generating up to 16 million pounds of thrust — more than twice the power as NASA's Saturn 5 moon rocket — the Super Heavy-Starship arced away to the east atop of long jet of bluish flame.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2025
These hands someday dead, bluish, crossed on chest?
—George Saunders, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2025
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Jane Kim, Verywell Health, 26 Feb. 2025
When someone overdoses from fentanyl, breathing slows and their skin often turns a bluish hue.
—Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
Capable of generating up to 16 million pounds of thrust — more than twice the power as NASA's Saturn 5 moon rocket — the Super Heavy-Starship arced away to the east atop of long jet of bluish flame.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2025
These hands someday dead, bluish, crossed on chest?
—George Saunders, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2025
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“Bluish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bluish. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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bluish
adjective
blu·ish
ˈblü-ish 
: somewhat blue
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