bud
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With each instructive and poetic chapter, she shows us how time used to be measured by birdsong and flower bud, the color of twilight and the wide wheel of stars.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 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
When the bloom begins, it starts as a massive green bud and grows fast.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2025
“This is about to bloom,” Aunt Ifeoma said to Jaja, pointing at an ixora bud.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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