bead
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Each bead measured only about half a millimeter across and contained a carefully controlled amount of silicon dioxide.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Each bead slipped through her fingers as if she were marking the seconds, bargaining with time.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2026
While investors are trying to get a bead on the Fed, earnings season is rolling on.
From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026
"I'm bursting with confidence now... not a single bead of sweat."
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
She undid each braid and removed every bead, then washed and combed and brushed.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
He appeared at Margate Magistrates' Court on Friday via videolink wearing a grey T-shirt and rosary beads.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Once the catheter reaches the genicular arteries around the knee, the team releases tiny beads into abnormal blood vessels associated with the painful, inflamed areas identified by the patient.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 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
Doyle Lane ceramic beads hang on a wooden clock above a collection of $2 bills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Sela sifted through her beads while I picked green flakes of paint from the table in a pointless attempt to keep my mouth shut.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
On loan from La Cinémathèque Française, Paris, laid flat in a vitrine, is a flesh-colored silk-chiffon slip dress, its hem beaded with silver lozenges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
The distinction matters: the study did not suggest that every beaded axon is damaged.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 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
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
She had at least six beaded bracelets on each arm, seven or eight necklaces draped around her neck, and plastic rings on every finger.
From "Trouble at the Arcade (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #1)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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
As the runway progressed, each look appeared more and more elaborate - with intricate beading and ethereal like draping on skirts and dresses.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
The repetitive nature of weaving and beading and hands-on craftsmanship are important to Gibson.
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
"Yes, I know it. These machines don't help," says Lev, sweat beading around his eyes.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
