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
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
I put the stock to my shoulder and drew a bead on a fence post.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Doyle Lane ceramic beads hang on a wooden clock above a collection of $2 bills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 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
Elsewhere, sizable sculptures of unknown creatures made from glass beads are effortfully wacky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The acid, base, and protein beads can all be reused.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
Cassiopeia proved it by using her fingers to do sums on her abacus, and flicked the beads up and down with nary a wince.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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
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
Actress and event co-chair Nicole Kidman donned a red, long-sleeved beaded column gown by Chanel.
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
Mr. Ransome, who wore a sweater vest and hung his glasses from a beaded chain, looked up as he entered.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
"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
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
Entering the pavilion, the beaded bodices of sculptures in human form are emblazoned with dates of U.S. legislation that promised equity, the beading cascading into colorful fringe.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 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
Sweat breaks out on the palms of my hands, beading up through the ointment, and I do my best to pat them dry on my shirt.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
