bead
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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
Hernández lined it to the gap, where center fielder Luis Matos struggled to get a bead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2025
Not just that, but Julia also had a bead on part-time remote work.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025
It was as though a necklace had come apart and each bead rolled separately across the floor.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Nearby, a handmade chandelier by artist Helen Stickler, decorated with vintage Swarovski crystals and beads, adds to what Weger describes as her “Candyland vibe.”
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
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
These fibrils were then combined with potassium hydroxide and formed into porous beads measuring about half a centimeter to one centimeter in diameter.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
Captain Smith holds two strings of beads in his hand.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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
Partygoers seemed more enthused about the vendor selling beaded plushie necklaces than about heading to the dance floor.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
"That bag! That bag!" one shopper shouts while racing through the warehouse, filled with everything from colourful toys -- including popular Gundam action figures -- to ceramic bowls, beaded necklaces and even used umbrellas.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
But with her diamond-patterned mermaid tail, frayed tank top, and the little beaded seashell necklace around her neck, the drawing was also Greenleigh.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
Wednesday's show was no different - with excessive beading, ball gowns and metallic fabrics dominating the catwalk.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
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
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
Around a peeled twig Ten Snow had wound a long length of the finest sinew thread to use in beading.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
