bud
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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
Walsh suggested to Sir Jeffrey that he had gone because it was "something you needed to nip in the bud".
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 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
“We have to make sure that these trees are packed above the bud union, right here.”
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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
Some of the rose buds had also started to rot, but she's dried them out and made a resin artwork scattered with the salvageable petals.
From BBC ● Jan. 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
From our experience, the improved buds can block the sound of rowdy restaurants, rumbling buses—and attention-seeking spouses and children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
My stomach gurgled excited approval, but my brain reminded my taste buds that this had been made by Dad’s hands.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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
Evans said WA 64 was first budded in 2001 after being crossbred in 1998.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2023
Species responded to warmer temperatures in different ways - most kept their leaf colour longer into Autumn but some budded early.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2023
Closing Sohrab’s door, I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
Andreessen Horowitz is part of that budding movement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Vostu eventually petered out, but it was a good learning experience for the budding entrepreneur and investor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
The 19-year-old, sporting a budding beard, usually operates from home, filling lulls by watching the TV show Criminal Minds or honing his drone-flying skills on a simulator.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
The budding astronaut has received tips on realising his dream from hero Tim Peake - and has even started learning Russian.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
But he’d started playing with Songololo again, and I didn’t know how to break up their budding friendship.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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