bead
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“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
While investors are trying to get a bead on the Fed, earnings season is rolling on.
From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026
During breaks, she’d work at a Chicago bead store, where she learned about global jewelry-making practices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025
"I'm bursting with confidence now... not a single bead of sweat."
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
His were worn through, dirty, beaten up, although not missing a single bead of Mama’s tight beadwork.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
Other discoveries include glass beads, stone tools, nails, and animal bones from meals that included turtle, freshwater fish, and turkey.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
Elsewhere, sizable sculptures of unknown creatures made from glass beads are effortfully wacky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
It’s covered in more than 20,000 beads and weighs almost 1 ton — or about 2,000 pounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
While Burnham told the Times his mother would be "wearing her rosary beads out" to mark him becoming prime minister, his father, Roy, will unfortunately be unaware of his son's achievement due to his dementia.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The women’s faces and arms are tattooed with patterns, the men’s hair is long with beads and bones—human bones?—hanging in decoration.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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
Twentysomethings clad in Deftones and Pikachu tees, Dodgers caps, and beaded bracelets joined the procession, snaking from the dance floor through the bar area and back down again.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
"That bag! That bag!" one shopper shouts while racing through the warehouse, filled with everything from colourful toys -- including popular Gundam action figures -- to ceramic bowls, beaded necklaces and even used umbrellas.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
It’s multicolored and features an eye motif and beaded tassels hanging down toward the clavicle.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
Omakayas’s first job ever since she could walk was to fetch her mother’s scissors, kept safe from her small fingers in a beaded woolen case, and bring them home.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
Back on Riohacha's promenade, Ms Aguilar says the bag's fashion rise has led artisans to adapt or add elements, such as elaborate beading, religious icons, or even football club logos.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2025
The repetitive nature of weaving and beading and hands-on craftsmanship are important to Gibson.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025
Cell biologist John Heuser from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis also thinks beading is an artifact of the preparation process.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2024
The collection closed with formalwear with clusters of beading, as if barnacles, and coral-inspired embroidery gave a naturalistic touch.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
Otto rode on my back, occasionally reaching out to grasp a leaf or twig whose beading water interested him.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
