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
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
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
I can see the sweat forming on his forehead, one bead at a time.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
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
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
Sisters safe and shining, with grad-cap feathers flying, rock your beads and rock your vote.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
Partygoers seemed more enthused about the vendor selling beaded plushie necklaces than about heading to the dance floor.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
People working with Perez would collect the reptiles including Mexican box turtles and Mexican beaded lizards, at from an airport in Ciudad Juárez, then move them by car over the border to El Paso.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
Even though the sun had moved from overhead, sweat still beaded on my forehead, then rolled down my face on the same path my tears did earlier.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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
“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
Though he spoke little, she was glad to be out of her rooms, and dressed in one of her new gowns—a lovely lilac silk dress with pale pink lace accents and pearl beading.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
