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The conservatory posted that it might be a bud, meaning a flowering could come soon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

It was nipped in the bud by the court, which weighed in to uphold a lower court's ruling.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

This is why a lot of Jews want to nip that rhetoric in the bud.

From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2025

But it compounds a sense that Arsenal are experiencing a "blip" and need to nip it in the bud before it becomes more than that.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

I felt the little bud of our friendship beginning to bloom, and I smiled to myself.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

When they hatch, the leaves they depend on are still sealed inside buds, leaving them with nothing to eat.

From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026

While most plants only had one flower with many buds yet to open up, some were in full bloom with the sweet fragrant scent only the lily can provide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025

From our experience, the improved buds can block the sound of rowdy restaurants, rumbling buses—and attention-seeking spouses and children.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

This includes Martha, a 23-year-old student in Leeds, who only shops at Primark for basics like T-shirts, socks, underwear and cotton buds.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025

The fizz and coconut taste are instantly popular with my taste buds.

From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya

“If your hemagglutinin is too sticky and your neuraminidase is too poor, you get stuck to the cell that you’ve just budded from,” Peacock says.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 5, 2024

This year, skip budded or blooming plants; give the gardener on your list a chubby bulb, and let them cultivate those impressive stalks crowned with showy trumpet blossoms.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2023

Species responded to warmer temperatures in different ways - most kept their leaf colour longer into Autumn but some budded early.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2023

It had a Michigan secret receiver who budded to star.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2021

Closing Sohrab’s door, I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the mid­dle of the night.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

The 19-year-old, sporting a budding beard, usually operates from home, filling lulls by watching the TV show Criminal Minds or honing his drone-flying skills on a simulator.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

Cutler, 68, recalls taking a meeting with Kushner at his Cambridge, Mass., office when the younger man was still a student at Harvard with a budding interest in tech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

“While we are encouraged by the company’s improved execution and budding operating leverage, we think the true value of the company is still very much in flux,” he said in his report.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

Those budding relationships with the Stormont parties were quickly tested as old arguments about funding for the executive resurfaced.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Thanks to Maria’s training, they were both accomplished artists and budding naturalists in their own right, but they had been severely limited in other ways.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman