bead
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BH: The two beaded dresses took over a month because every bead was hand beaded and sewn on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
“I don’t think anybody had a firm bead on what the result was going to be,” Lance Dutson, a Maine Republican strategist who worked on Collins’ 2008, 2014, and 2020 campaigns, told me.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
He managed to get back two coral bead crowns and a tunic but it was only in 2021 that any significant repatriation of artefacts by Western universities and museums began.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
While investors are trying to get a bead on the Fed, earnings season is rolling on.
From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026
A bead of sweat rolled down his forehead as he removed another box.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
He appeared at Margate Magistrates' Court on Friday via videolink wearing a grey T-shirt and rosary beads.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
In a post to X on Monday, the "Turn Back Time" singer wrote: "My dear Bob has gone up to heaven. Knowing him, he's bringing sequins, beads and his sketch pad. Good nite sweet Prince."
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
"The glass beads serve a similar function to calibration weights on a scale," explains Iris Weber from the University of Münster.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
In the dining room, vintage Doyle Lane ceramic beads dangle from a Mission-style wooden clock while designer handbags are draped over chairs and hat racks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
She was not mistaken about the braided hair decorated with beads.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Her accessories included gold-toned shoes, dangly beaded earrings and a long white marabou boa to dial up the glam factor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The distinction matters: the study did not suggest that every beaded axon is damaged.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
Velvet-coated sculptures of cactuses and otherworldly beaded plants provide some of the much needed levity that the show so hopes to achieve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The doorbell went again and a walking sculpture dressed in an Anne Boleyn-style quilted dress with beaded face mask appeared.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
When I return, Marlena is there, wearing the beaded silk dress August gave her that night we had dinner in their stateroom.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
For the Johns Hopkins team, an important question remains how the structure seen in functioning axons relates to the damaging beading associated with neurological disease.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
Wednesday's show was no different - with excessive beading, ball gowns and metallic fabrics dominating the catwalk.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
For the first time Gibson collaborated with other Indigenous artists, who specialized in beading, drum-making and silver engraving.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025
“Axon morphology in living animals is under constant and dynamic change,” says neuroscientist Tong Wang from ShanghaiTech University, who has studied beading in diseased neurons.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2024
Drops of sweat are beading on his forehead.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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