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Which of these would most likely sport a stud?

stud

[stuhd] / stʌd /
NOUN
studding
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NOUN
post
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The 4-year-old colt, who was injured at the start of the San Diego Handicap, which he rallied to win, will be put out to stud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

And in February, as snow melted around the “No Industrial Solar” signs that stud the long country roads, a circuit court judge ruled that St. Clair County’s health regulation is “invalid, null, and void.”

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2026

If you get a stud in your navel or a little tattoo on your ankle, you aren’t likely to look back later and kick yourself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

The Suffolk Punch Trust has had a stud at Hollesley in the county, since 1759.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

She wears two earrings in each ear, one a golden circle and one a diamond stud.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy

The internet as we knew it might have been torn down to the studs by Silicon Valley bigwigs looking to sell the wiring for scrap, but the bones are still good.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

It only takes one glance from the security guard — their eye catching the light dancing off of the studs, the spikes, the grommets, the O-rings, the chains — to understand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

First Jarell Quansah was sent off in the 54th minute after a review by the video assistant referee showed he clearly went in on Jesus Gallardo with his studs up.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

On that night, in Kansas City, Messi lunged for a ball and raked his studs on the calf of an Algerian defender.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

The house was stripped out to the wall studs.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

But the idea that future generations will inherit my studded Prada Buffalo Easy bag to remember me by makes me laugh.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Under a chaotic canopy woven with vines and studded with fearsome spiked stems, the group crossed streams, waded through mud and picked off dozens of leeches.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

Their lead single “Fabienk” is studded with hair-trigger riffs — if you can even call them that — that mix the playful nursery rhyme melodies of Battles with the no-wave drone of Sonic Youth.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

There is also an Ireland-registered AB charitable foundation with an advisory board studded with prominent politicians from Europe, Latin America and Africa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

The pavilion and courtyard had painted walls and floors of colored sand and clay; heavy sculptural objects, including several of the trademark heads, studded the area.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

And at a shady tent, a group of teenagers blared pop songs, looped together friendship bracelets and did one another’s makeup, blending rainbow eye shadow and studding sequins along their foreheads.

From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2023

A recent study in the journal Science Immunology says this ability to escape antibodies is due to more than 30 changes in the spike protein studding the surface of the virus.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 25, 2022

Scientists expect more genetic changes that affect parts of the spike protein studding the surface of the virus, letting it attach to human cells.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2022

But Ferreira found that people who carry a specific variant of the ACE2 gene have about 39 percent fewer receptors for the protein studding their cellular surfaces.

From Scientific American ● May 18, 2022

There were fully twenty-five seeds studding the top of it each as large as the end of his thumb.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw




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