bead
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In fairness, getting a bead on a primary in which the candidates keep shifting and many voters remain undecided isn’t easy.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
While investors are trying to get a bead on the Fed, earnings season is rolling on.
From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026
The researchers found that certain phosphate groups in DNA can pull in positively charged molecules during a chemical reaction, helping them align correctly -- much like a magnet drawing a metal bead into place.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2025
Hernández lined it to the gap, where center fielder Luis Matos struggled to get a bead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2025
Like Dad used to do in church, I place a bead between my pointer finger and thumb and rub my fingers over its surface.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Doyle Lane ceramic beads hang on a wooden clock above a collection of $2 bills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Elsewhere, sizable sculptures of unknown creatures made from glass beads are effortfully wacky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Orbeez are small, water-absorbing beads sold at toy stores.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
When exposed to air, the potassium hydroxide inside the beads reacts with CO2, producing hydrogen carbonate, a salt of carbonic acid.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
She filled it with lucky beans to make up for the lack of proper beads, and hurled it far into the lake.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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
Kreitzman gave me a Masai beaded collar, bought ethically from a female Kenyan designer, to work with.
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
This time around, she arrived in a sculptural silver gown from Maison Margiela with an intricately beaded bodice and an Art Deco-style headpiece.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
“Our friend Hannah right here is selling these beautiful beaded key chains to raise money for Elders back on our rez.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
"The lace, the embroidery and the beading - it's a wonderful example of an extraordinary level of detail," said Mr Thomas.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 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
An exhibition, “Like a Memory of Night,” showed work by Sika Amakye, a young Ghanaian artist who employs traditional beading traditions passed down matrilineally.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 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
When I finished dressing the gash in clean gauze, I looked up and was startled to find tears beading in his lashes.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
