bud

Example Sentences

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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

When the bloom begins, it starts as a massive green bud and grows fast.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2025

She said that if managers employed people who did not know how to behave, they had a responsibility to take them to one side, and nip issues in the bud as soon as possible.

From BBC • Jul. 9, 2025

I lay beside the bed, fearful for his health; determined he should recover; and conscious of a foreign satisfaction, perhaps even pleasure, that awaited a ripe moment to grow from bud to bloom.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson