budding

The series uses school drama and a budding teen romance as a backdrop to touch on themes such as class strife and prejudice, corporate greed and personal vengeance.

Before any of that, though, the Dodgers walked right to the edge of the abyss and contemplated the end of their budding dynasty.

Did they fail to recognize a budding bullpen star?

And their budding romance is not entirely unprecedented in the lexicon of Canadian political history.

Both are pregnant for the first time, and their budding companionship accounts for the book’s best scenes.