bead
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“I don’t think anybody had a firm bead on what the result was going to be,” Lance Dutson, a Maine Republican strategist who worked on Collins’ 2008, 2014, and 2020 campaigns, told me.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
He managed to get back two coral bead crowns and a tunic but it was only in 2021 that any significant repatriation of artefacts by Western universities and museums began.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
While investors are trying to get a bead on the Fed, earnings season is rolling on.
From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026
Identification of the origins of both the bone bead and bone needles was made possible through the use of zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry, also known as ZooMS, and Micro-CT scanning.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024
At first, she thought that she might bead some tiny makazins for her dolls.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
Doyle Lane ceramic beads hang on a wooden clock above a collection of $2 bills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Elsewhere, sizable sculptures of unknown creatures made from glass beads are effortfully wacky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
It’s covered in more than 20,000 beads and weighs almost 1 ton — or about 2,000 pounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
These fibrils were then combined with potassium hydroxide and formed into porous beads measuring about half a centimeter to one centimeter in diameter.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
I started the stitch three times and then pushed the needle through the hide and slowly pulled, snugging up the beads almost like Sela had.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Velvet-coated sculptures of cactuses and otherworldly beaded plants provide some of the much needed levity that the show so hopes to achieve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Twentysomethings clad in Deftones and Pikachu tees, Dodgers caps, and beaded bracelets joined the procession, snaking from the dance floor through the bar area and back down again.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
This time around, she arrived in a sculptural silver gown from Maison Margiela with an intricately beaded bodice and an Art Deco-style headpiece.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
Actress and event co-chair Nicole Kidman donned a red, long-sleeved beaded column gown by Chanel.
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
A young Black woman with big, beaded earrings pushing a stroller stops right in front of us.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Heshima winces in pain as he tries to shift his weight, sweat beading on his face.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2025
Cell biologist John Heuser from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis also thinks beading is an artifact of the preparation process.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2024
Entering the pavilion, the beaded bodices of sculptures in human form are emblazoned with dates of U.S. legislation that promised equity, the beading cascading into colorful fringe.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
An exhibition, “Like a Memory of Night,” showed work by Sika Amakye, a young Ghanaian artist who employs traditional beading traditions passed down matrilineally.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
"I am," Will said gloomily, and I noticed little drops of sweat beading his high pale forehead.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
