How to Use blue book in a Sentence
blue book
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The in-class exam, and its associated blue book, is also on the rise.
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Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
17 Aug. 2025
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David Bell, a history professor, has also added in oral exams and switched from short take-home papers to in-class writing in blue books.
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Rose Horowitch,
The Atlantic,
12 May 2026
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London — Andrew Field recalls how his school in south London used to hand out a little blue book listing all the students enrolled that year.
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Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
4 Dec. 2025
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Remember blue books, those mini notebooklets professors distributed for exams?
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Aj Willingham,
AJC.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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The current approach to testing in higher education, including multiple choice tests, blue book essays, group projects, and in-class presentations, is at best, a proxy for learning.
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Nick Ladany,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal reported an uptick in the sale of blue books as a safeguard in testing to avoid students using AI for cheating.
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Laurel Donnellan,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The association released these findings in a blue book on Friday, as reported by CCTV News.
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Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Apr. 2026
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In schools and universities, sales of old-fashioned blue books are booming, partly in response to the growing prevalence of students using large language models like ChatGPT to complete their coursework.
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Mack Degeurin,
Popular Science,
29 Apr. 2026
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Sales of blue books more than doubled between 2022 and 2024, according to data from Circana, as reported by The Economist, around the same time AI chatbots gained popularity among students all over the world.
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PC Magazine,
22 Nov. 2025
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