bud
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From there it opens up, like a flower bud warming to summer, with acoustic guitar strumming, a gentle rhythm section and a gospel choir echoing with otherworldly lightness.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Had a military coup been nipped in the bud?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
This is why a lot of Jews want to nip that rhetoric in the bud.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2025
"If we can nip it in the bud from even one person, then hopefully we could stop them potentially doing more harm to other people."
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025
There was a limp flower bud there, tucked behind a clump of grass—the only splash of purple anywhere in sight.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
AI identifies buds, flowers or fruit in that footage.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
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
They can help your gut, your blood pressure, your cholesterol—and your taste buds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
I’d say it depends on the dish — and leave the rest to your personal taste buds.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2026
Granny first, though hardly able to walk; then Durgan; Kannan with his wife, bearing a few jasmine buds; and Kali, bringing with her a muslin cloth to cover the bier.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
Researchers also observed the archaeon producing chains of budded vesicles along with elaborate tube-like structures.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
“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
Evans said WA 64 was first budded in 2001 after being crossbred in 1998.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 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
Instead, the newly budded flowers of the throne brown and wither.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
Going on hiatus to serve in the military is often a threat for budding careers in South Korea's fast-moving entertainment industry.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The team hopes to win a Super Bowl by betting that its budding star can outscore just about anyone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
A franchise that used to cycle through mostly forgettable quarterbacks and relied on suffocating defense now hopes to win a Super Bowl by betting that its budding star can outscore just about anyone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
In Lee Chang-dong’s ‘Possible Love,’ a budding connection stumbles over the class divide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
The farmer in Wang Lung was diverted for an instant and he stooped to examine the budding heads.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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