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bud

[buhd] / bʌd /




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The budding friendship will be tested by a high-stakes heist, carried out during the city's centennial gala by a snake, a species long banned from the city.

From Barron's

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

Cannabis "flower" - or buds - have hardly ever been prescribed on the NHS since the law changed to allow it for medicinal reasons in 2018, but there is a growing private industry.

From BBC

Five or six spring-times, welcomed joyously, lovingly watched from the first celandine to the budding of the rose; who shall dare to call it a stinted boon?

From The Wall Street Journal

Some nine years down the line, fresh blood is needed, so “Now You Don’t” plays like “Now You See Me: The New Class,” introducing a trio of budding magicians who take inspiration from the Horsemen.

From Los Angeles Times