How to Use blue chip in a Sentence

blue chip

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  • Tesla is now worth more than most blue chip firms in the S&P 500.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 3 July 2020
  • In tennis, a blue chip is one of the very best players.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2022
  • Borland did not come to Ohio State as a blue chip prospect.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The one path that might prove more tricky to pull off now is the path of trading up to take one of the blue chip prospects.
    — Patrick Murray, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • Oregon has flipped a blue chip, top-100 prospect from USC.
    — oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Out of the stocks that make up the blue chip DAX 30, only one closed in the green yesterday.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Ohio State faces very few blue chip talents over the course of a Big Ten schedule.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2021
  • It’s so blue chip, and does everything with such taste.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2021
  • And some of the companies that were still among that blue chip average are no longer in the Dow.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Now, the Blues add a blue chip defender with size and NHL bloodlines. 30.
    — Kyle Woodlief, USA TODAY, 26 June 2023
  • Uber and Lyft have both hired blue chip lobbying firms.
    — Andrew Oxford, azcentral, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Fresh off a revamp, the restaurant is now adorned with blue chip art by Richard Serra and Alex Katz.
    — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The blue chip index is now 20.5 percent below its all-time high set on Jan. 4.
    — Alex Veiga, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2022
  • It’s so easy to forget how very blue chip and everywhere AOL once was.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The 5-star one year, lower-tier next year trade-off only works if every blue chip works out.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 16 May 2021
  • Alabama is supposed to have more blue chip NFL prospects than any team in the country.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The Oregon Ducks have added a ninth blue chip prospect to their 2023 football recruiting class.
    — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Now, just under the gun, blue chip sellers are using the looming deadline to try to goose sales.
    — Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
  • But what about the people who don’t have blue chip schools on their résumé, who didn’t go to college or who maybe had a slow start.
    — Cori Murray, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 May 2023
  • That trade up [by the Jets] ensured that a blue blue chip prospect is going to fall right into Cleveland's lap.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Braun, with his blue chip slate, can afford to be optimistic.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 18 Jan. 2023
  • These two programs are atop the Pac-12 and recruit against each other for most every blue chip prospect.
    — oregonlive, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Have the potential to build a strong roster with a blue chip centerpiece.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
  • That has led to speculation that Tesla may soon be added to the blue chip S&P 500 index.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Marshall stayed in the program all four years but drifted back down the depth chart a bit as the Bulldogs kept piling up blue chip backs.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 2 Apr. 2020
  • On a roster top-heavy with blue chip prospects, his is a blue-collar success story.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 21 July 2022
  • But many blue chip healthcare stocks have been solid gainers in this bear market for the Nasdaq and S&P 500.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 3 July 2022
  • For the third time in 10 days, Kentucky basketball has landed a blue chip recruit.
    — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2020
  • Of its big properties, only the James Bond franchise is the sort of blue chip blockbuster for which studios pine.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 27 May 2021
  • Casino gambling, sort of, with a major Toledo painting as the blue chip.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022

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