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
"I'm bursting with confidence now... not a single bead of sweat."
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
Identification of the origins of both the bone bead and bone needles was made possible through the use of zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry, also known as ZooMS, and Micro-CT scanning.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024
You were shivering and coughing, but you started stringing beads while we sang out, “Bead necklaces, pretty bead necklaces!”
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
One day, I saw him handling what looked like prayer beads.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
During the campaign, she crisscrossed the country by road, wearing jeans and a white shirt, with rosary beads around her neck.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 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 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
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
The distinction matters: the study did not suggest that every beaded axon is damaged.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
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
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
You dig through your backpack for the beaded bag that holds your supplies—the one Auntie Maggie gave you when you were eleven—get sorted.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
That later changed to a pale pink suit with silver beading before a final switch to a dark brown velvet number.
From BBC ● May 11, 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
She opened the box and pulled out a slender gray velvet dress with thin shoulder straps and a curlicue pattern of beading down one side.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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