bud

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

Kirsten added "it needs to be nipped in the bud".

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

Hilton Worldwide Holdings appeared earlier this month to have nipped a similar public-relations crisis in the bud.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

This is why a lot of Jews want to nip that rhetoric in the bud.

From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2025

My father witnessed the progress of every new leaf and fat flower bud.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

Now a must-have iPhone accessory, the development of the first generation was infamous inside Apple for infighting among Ternus’s peers as they argued over how to keep the wireless ear buds connected via Bluetooth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

While most plants only had one flower with many buds yet to open up, some were in full bloom with the sweet fragrant scent only the lily can provide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025

This includes Martha, a 23-year-old student in Leeds, who only shops at Primark for basics like T-shirts, socks, underwear and cotton buds.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025

Mr. Chris said he’d “pulled the buckets” in the sugarbush the day before because the buds were coming out on all the trees.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

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

There are also “nine or so grafts and budded plants” Chris Trimmer who runs the site explains.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2024

This year, skip budded or blooming plants; give the gardener on your list a chubby bulb, and let them cultivate those impressive stalks crowned with showy trumpet blossoms.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2023

Everything was richly green: the color of newly budded leaves, of luminescent moss, of every possible shade of pine needle.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

Now, I could see, my language skills might be an asset in my budding journalism career.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Born on Sept. 2, 1943, to John and Mary Ashford, the budding soprano developed her chops singing in the church choir and then in the glee club at Wilbur Wright High School in Detroit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Andreessen Horowitz is part of that budding movement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

It was the start of the second quarter on Friday night, when USC quarterback Jayden Maiava spotted his budding star freshman soaring on a slot post through the wide-open center of the field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

As she clasped the cloak around her shoulders, Gingersnipes stole a glance at the budding infestation outside the cottage window.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman