stud
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“He was such a stud out there,” Williams told The Guardian.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 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
The entire Ryan Dean West universe instantly collapsed to the size of a five-eighths-inch metal cleat stud, and everything I knew, everything I would ever know, got sucked into that pinpoint of agony.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
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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
Players often have to ditch the molded cleats they typically use for cleats with longer, detachable studs when playing outside the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 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
There were a few moments of concern when Messi's studs caught the top of Aissa Mandi's heel but, no action was taken, and the Argentine took full advantage.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
At Jack’s request Molly has taken out the nose ring and left only two studs in each ear.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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In other situations, I hoped that my studded accessories would communicate to predators that I do not identify as prey.
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
It was no surprise to Rowan that it was painted royal blue and studded with glistening stars.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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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
Jet-setters aspiring to Plein’s rock ‘n’ roll aesthetic can settle into a curved velvet sofa with gold studding.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 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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